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Utah's midweek forecast is kind of like Quasimodo, on a rollercoaster.
Autumn's schizophrenic ride between freezing dawns and balmy afternoons has, after all, reached "Hump Day." Wednesday's temperatures were forecast in the mid-60s along the Wasatch Front — and upper-70s in southern Utah — before giving way overnight in the 40s and 50s, respectively.
Under Thursday's partly cloudy skies encore, northern Utah looked for highs in the upper-60s; Utah's Dixie was forecast to see highs flirting with 80 degrees.
Ah, but on Friday, the metaphorically vacationing bellringer of Notre Dame might just raise his goose-pimpled arms and cry "Brrr. Sanctuary!" as the forecast plunges to lows near freezing. Thanks to a Pacific front, rain and mountain snow also are on the meteorological menu as a stormy weekend approaches.
Good thing about unsettled weather is it scours the atmosphere of pollutants. The Utah Division of Air Quality graded the entire state as "green," or healthy for breathing heading into the weekend.
According to the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website, allergen levels were so low that they simply did not register as of Wednesday.
To learn more about the forecast in detail, visit the Tribune's weather page at sltrib.com/weather.
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