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Utah's capital had one more record-setting day before temperatures dip along with the midweek arrival of an opening salvo in a series of wet and breezy storms.

Salt Lake City's high of 75 Tuesday afternoon supplanted a 74-degree record set in 1910, but by nightfall rain, and in places thunderstorms arrived. Showers will usher in Wednesday, too, with daytime highs plunging toward the 60-degree mark.

The Wasatch Front will once more see rain, driven by winds of 10-20 mph, throughout Thursday. Highs will slide even further, to about 50 degrees.

Southern Utahns also will see rain, though less of it, beginning Wednesday. Midweek highs will be in the mid- to upper-60s in Utah's Dixie, a 25-30 degree tumble from Tuesday's highs.

Thursday offers rain and a slight chance of thunderstorms to the red rocks and high deserts of the south with highs in the upper-50s.

The Utah Division of Air Quality welcomes a good wet and boisterous day or two to keep the atmosphere clean. The air quality statewide will be "green," or healthy through Wednesday.

That's the good news for all of us oxygen-dependent land lifeforms. The bad comes with the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website's listing of "very high" pollen levels as of Tuesday: cottonwood, cedar, ash, willow and elm. Mulberry and oak ranked "moderate" on the site's index.

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

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