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Utah's spell of near-perfect spring comes to an abrupt halt on Tuesday, when high winds and wintry weather will buffet the state.

The National Weather Service put much of north-central Utah under a Winter Storm Watch from Tuesday morning through Wednesday afternoon. The Wasatch Range will see snow accumulations of 6-12 inches in the northern mountains, while the southern mountains expect 4-8 inches.

A High Wind Watch also is in place for the region from Tuesday morning through Tuesday evening; winds of 25-35 mph, gusting as high as 70 mph, were forecast.

Temperatures, in the low-70s on Monday for the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, will slide into the 60s on Tuesday. Valley rain and mountain snow are forecast throughout Tuesday as well.

Southern Utahns will suffer some from the windy weather, too. Without the north's precipitation, they will also deal with blowing dust from already parched high deserts. Highs on Tuesday will be in the low- to mid-80s, the same daytime range as on Monday.

The Utah Division of Air Quality rated all monitoring stations as in the "green" or healthy breathing category as the new work week began.

The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website rated mulberry pollen as "high" on Monday, with maple and oak "moderate" and all other allergens at "low" levels.

For more extensive forecast information, visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/weather.

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