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The forecast? Just plain cold, Utah.
The National Weather Service reported a -16 degree reading at its Wasatch Hills station before dawn Tuesday. Other lows included a -14 near Tabiona, -12 at Logan Summit and -4 at Soldier Summit. Cedar City recorded a 5-degree low overnight, Logan was at 8 degrees, Brigham City 13, Provo 14, Ogden 15, Salt Lake City 17 and even St. George, in sunny southwestern Utah, came in at 27 degrees.
The forecast for the Wasatch Front on Wednesday was not a lot better: under mostly cloudy skies, daytime highs will be in the low-30s, down a couple degrees from Tuesday. Overnight lows will continue to be in the low-20s to low-30s.
Southern Utahns could look for warmer daytime highs in the upper-50s to low-60s, but overnight temperatures will dip to near freezing.
Another sign that winter weather has arrived, even if the season itself technically remains autumnal, is the deteriorating air quality along the Wasatch Front. Hints of the dread cold weather inversions came with the Utah Division of Air Quality's grading of breathing conditions in Salt Lake, Weber, Cache, Davis and Utah counties at "yellow," or moderate; the rest of the state remained at "green," or healthy through the midweek.
The Utah Avalanche Center rated the risk for potentially deadly mountain snowslides early Tuesday as "moderate" for the Salt Lake district's mountains, with most other regions remaining at "low" risk.
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