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Roll out those lazy, hazy, crazy days of ... winter? It is, sort of, a Nat King Cole kind of forecast for Utah, after all.
The northern Wasatch Front continues to eschew its more typical sub-freezing, snowstorm laden mid-winter weather, with its inversion-plagued urban valleys enduring persistent smog even under sunny skies and relatively warm daytime temperatures.
The Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, for instance, expected highs on Thursday approaching the 40s, though overnight lows were to dip into the teens to lower-20s. That forecast mirrored the one for Wednesday.
Southern Utahns generally escaped the diminished air quality of their northern neighbors, though gusty weather — with winds in the 25-30 mph range — were forecast for late Wednesday, along with highs in the mid-50s. Thursday will be calmer for Utah's Dixie, and a few degrees cooler.
The Utah Avalanche Center's risk assessment for potentially deadly backcountry snowslides in the mountains above Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo retreated to "low" as of Wednesday, but avalanche cautions remained in the "moderate" category for the Logan, Uintas and Moab districts.
The Utah Division of Air Quality, with storm activity low, rated air quality for Wasatch Front counties Salt Lake, Weber, Cache, Davis and Utah, as well as eastern Utah's Duchesne County, at "moderate" heading toward the weekend. Tooele, Washington, Carbon and Uintah counties were "green," or healthy.
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