SALT LAKE CITY — Utah remains on pace to have one of its driest summers in at least the past 130 years , and long-range outlooks aren’t looking all too promising either.

That has Great Salt Lake advocates concerned as the lake, fueled by the snowpack runoff it does receive, drops back down to troubling levels .

Although the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center won’t release its final winter outlook until November, some other experts don’t like Utah’s precipitation odds this winter. The ski and snow sports forecasting site OpenSnow lists most of Utah as having stronger odds for below-normal precipitation in its preliminary winter preview released this week.

That would be bad news because snowpack accounts for about 95% of the state’s water supply, and the Great Salt Lake

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