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A cooler, rainy denouement is in store for northern Utah's work week, but clearing skies and sunshine are on tap come Saturday.
Isolated rain showers and thunderstorms throughout Friday along the Wasatch Front, with high temperatures struggling to reach the upper-60s, a repeat of Thursday's forecast.
It's like blues songstress Sherry Pruitt sings: "Through it all, we must stand tall [and] remember, there is sunshine after the rain."
And, there will be. Saturday brings clearing skies to the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, along with increasing sunshine and highs in the low-70s.
There will be no weather blues at all for southern Utah, but there will be warm winds. Utah's Dixie looked for highs in the upper-80s on Friday and 10-25 mph breezes, compared to Thursday's low-90s and partly cloudy skies. Saturday will be calmer, with daytime temperatures in the upper-80s as sunshine bathes the redrocks and igh deserts.
However, air quality will be degraded statewide. With the sole exception of Cache County's "green," or healthy grade, the Utah Division of Air Quality has issued "yellow," or moderate ratings for particulate pollution through the week's end.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website listed grass as "very high," and mulberry "high" on its pollen index as of Thursday; other allergens were "low," or did not register.
For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/news/weather/.
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