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Friday the 13th unlucky? Nah. How could the day before Valentine's Day be anything but an upbeat fanfare for flowers, candy and love, sweet love — and a Utah forecast for continued mild weather?
Love and February sunshine: two things there are just too little of. Hopefully, we will be getting lots of the former come Saturday; we certainly will be seeing the latter come Friday along the Wasatch Front.
The National Weather Service predicted highs around 60 degrees in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys on Friday, some 15-20 degrees above normal. That is a forecast that mirrors Thursday, when partly cloudy skies in the morning were destined to give way to springlike sunshine.
Southern Utahns will bask in daytime highs in the low- to mid-70s. With clear, sunny skies overhead, denizens of Utah's Dixie might want to dig out the sunscreen.
Ah, if we could only save such times in a bottle, saving sunny faux winter days like a treasure . . . till eternity passes away.
The Utah Division of Air Quality, in a forecast equanimous to both Friday's day of fear and Saturday's dawn of romance, rated breathing conditions as "green," or healthy statewide extending into the weekend.
Only the Uintas and the mountains above Logan earned "moderate" ratings for potentially deadly backcountry snowslides as of Thursday, while other mountain districts were at "low" risk, according to the Utah Avalanche Center.
For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/weather.
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