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Yes, Utah's March is going out like the proverbial lion — and one cold, wet and irritable beastie at that.
The National Weather Service put northeastern Utah, from the Wasatch Plateau running east to the Wyoming border, and roughly the entire southwest quarter under a Winter Storm Warning beginning 6 p.m. Thursday and extending through 6 a.m. Saturday.
The central and southern mountains brace for 10-20 inches of snow, while the western Uintas expects 8-18 inches. Snow totals will be from 2 to 8 inches in the southwestern quarter of the state.
A Winter Weather Advisory is in place for from Logan south through Salt Lake City and Provo to Richfield, as well as southeastern Utah's Moab district. That advisory also ran from 6 p.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. Saturday, with 25-35 mph winds driving snowfall of 5-10 inches.
In the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, Saturday will be partly cloudy with highs in the upper-50s, a drier forecast than that for Friday, when intermittent rain showers kept highs in the mid-50s. Sunday, too, will be partly cloudy with highs in the low-60s.
Southern Utahns look for highs in the low-60s on Friday, down 5-10 degrees from a windy Thursday. Saturday and Sunday are forecast to be sunny with highs in the 70s.
"Green," the designator for clean air, is the choice of the Utah Division of Air Quality for all state monitoring stations through the end of the work week.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website rated oak as "high," and ash and cottonwood "moderate" on its pollen index as of Thursday.
For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/news/weather/.
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