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At last, after weeks of unseasonable warmth, northern Utahns are shivering in more "normal" winter weather.
Daytime highs in the 30s to 40s and mountain snowfall are the norm for the Wasatch Front in February; temperatures in the 60s are not. Just ask Young Frankenstein's Igor: winter weather, like pilfered brains for reanimated monsters, should not be "abnormal."
High temperatures Wednesday were to climb into the upper-40s in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys after overnight lows in the 20s. Wednesday, while chilly, will be sunnier than Tuesday, when highs in the low- to mid-40s were forecast under partly cloudy skies.
Southern Utah, too, was making a return to normal seasonal weather after being pounded by a rare, snow-laden storm system on Monday: record snowfall was recorded in Kanab, where 9 inches (3 inches more than the previous mark set in 1951) of the white stuff blanketed the Utah-Arizona border town.
The storm also saw Cedar City set a record for its lowest daytime high temperature for Feb. 23 — 27 degrees, 3 degrees colder than the old mark set in 1960.
On Wednesday, Utah's Dixie looked for clearing skies and highs near 60, up some 5 degrees from Tuesday's forecast for scattered and diminishing rain and daytime temperatures in the mid-50s.
"Green," or healthy breathing conditions everywhere in the state were forecast through the midweek by the Utah Division of Air Quality.
All that unusual southern Utah snowfall on Monday elevated the risk for potentially deadly backcountry mountain snowslides to "considerable" near Moab, but the Utah Avalanche Center rated the risk as "moderate" for the Logan, Ogden and Provo districts and "low" for the slopes above Salt Lake City and in the Uintas.
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