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Northern Utah Februarys are a moveable meteorological feast, when fickle sunshine and windy wintry days chase each other along the Wasatch ridgelines.
"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest," Ernest Hemingway wrote of such interludes.
On Monday and Tuesday, Utahns could choose between highs in the mid-50s and breezy, occasionally wet days in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, or low-60s to low-70s and periodic showers of southern Utah.
Come Wednesday, however, that false spring fades like Papa Hemingway's memories of a post World War I expatriate Paris. A mix of rain and snow will drop high temperatures into the low-40s in northern Utah, and winds of 15-25 will make the midweek closer to freezing.
Utah's Dixie still will enjoy partly sunny skies with highs in the low-60s. Evening showers, buffeted by 10-20 mph breezes, will cap the day.
The Utah Division of Air Quality, ever the fan of storm-stirred atmosphere, gave its "green," or healthy grade to all areas of the state into the midweek.
The Utah Avalanche Center began Monday with "considerable" risk ratings for the mountains above Logan and Ogden, while the Salt Lake, Provo, Uintas, Moab and Abajo districts were at "moderate" danger for potentially deadly backcountry snowslides. Central Utah's Skyline area was "low" for avalanche risk.
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