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Northern Utahns can expect freezing mornings and daytime highs in the low-50s into the midweek, markedly cooler than recent temperatures — but still well above the normal February winter weather for the region.
Salt Lake City has averaged temperatures about 17 degrees warmer than usual for the first half of this month, continuing the trend of 2014-15 being one of the warmest winters on record for the Wasatch Front, according to the National Weather Service. The capital looked for highs of 51 Tuesday and was forecast to climb to 58 degrees on Wednesday.
By Thursday, Salt Lake City will warm once again into the 60s as a high pressure system breaks up, taking its shackles off colder surface air.
Southern Utah's forecast called for highs near 70 degrees on Wednesday, but a few degrees from Tuesday under clear, sunny skies.
The Division of Air Quality rated the entire state as "green," or healthy for breathing through the midweek period.
The Utah Avalanche Center saw the risk for potentially deadly backcountry mountain snowslides as "low" throughout the state as of Tuesday.
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