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Midweek sunshine will give way to storm clouds, rain and occasional lightning as the Wasatch Front patters toward a wet weekend.
This is the kind of weather that might inspire the poet Dylan Thomas to reflect on how he "rose in a rainy autumn and walked abroad in shower of all my days . . . through the parables of sunlight and the legends of the green chapels."
Wednesday dawned sunny and high temperatures were forecast to reach the mid-70s. The same warmth will be present on Thursday afternoon, then come the clouds. Scattered showers will come with Friday's sunrise, and the intensity of the rain — punctuated by thunder and winds of 10-20 mph — will build throughout the rest of a day, with highs in the mid- to upper-60s.
The same pattern will prevail in southern Utah. After clear, sunny skies and highs in the low-80s on Wednesday, Utah's Dixie looked for a cloudier, but still warm Thursday, then a breezy, stormy Friday with scattered rain showers and highs in the mid- to upper-70s.
The Utah Division of Air Quality gave uniform "green," or healthy breathing grades to all of the state's monitoring stations into the week's end.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that as of Wednesday only mold was "high" on its pollen index.
For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather/.
Click here to read Thomas' "Poem in October" in its entirety.
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