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Finally, winter storms have left a fresh blanket of snow on Utah's mountains — and under the sunny, clear skies forecast heading toward the weekend, you'll also be able to see those alabaster peaks.

By Tuesday night, a two-day storm cycle had dumped 24 inches of snow at Brighton, 19 at Powder Mountain, 18 in Provo Canyon, 17 at Snowbasin, 14 at Panguitch and 13, 12 and 11 inches in Cedar City, Orderville and Escalante, respectively. Salt Lake City had 3 inches, with snowfall totals elsewhere in the Salt Lake Valley ranging between 1 and 6 inches.

The northern Wasatch Front dawned Wednesday under clear skies, though, with high temperatures forecast in the upper-30s. Thursday was expected to be a day of sunshine, with highs in the upper-40s.

Still, the aftermath of Tuesday's icy weather triggered numerous accidents in Utah County, according to Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Todd Royce. One of those crashes, a head-on collision near Alberta, on the west side of Utah Lake, killed one person.

Southern Utah, in the wake of its own rare, heavy series of snowstorms, also shook off the cold. Thursday's forecast called for clear, sunny horizons and daytime highs in the upper-50s, up a few degrees from an equally clear Wednesday.

After all that snow, the Utah Avalanche Center rated the mountains above Ogden, Provo, Moab and in the Uintas at "considerable" risk for potentially deadly snowslides, while the remainder of the state's mountain monitoring districts earned "moderate" avalanche risk grades.

Storms do scour the air over Utah's urban valleys. All stations were rated "green," or healthy by the Utah Division of Air Quality through the end of the week.

For more extensive forecast breakdowns visit the Tribune weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/weather/.

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