Peter Sinks

For the Mountain West News Bureau, Brock Marchant has more.

A group of scientists with the Utah Climate Center is traveling on a bumpy road to Peter Sinks.

It's a sinkhole in Logan Canyon.

András de Bosch is with them.

So far, Solomon has not been arrested but was issued a court summons.

Well, Utah State University researchers say they have launched a new study at Peter Sinks to determine why the mountain basin regularly records some of the nation's coldest temperatures in the lower 48 states.

Now, located at 8,164 feet in Cache County, Peter Sinks is a natural limestone bowl that's famous... for trapping freezing air.

Now to better understand how the cold air moves, researchers have installed 16 new weather sensors along the basin's slopes and neighboring sinks.

Now, they're hoping that with the help of the Utah Climate Center, they'll be able to conduct a one-year project that'll run through July of next year and will yield insights beyond the sink.