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Northern Utahns looked for clearing skies and warmer temperatures on Wednesday, but first they had to zip up their jackets against a wet, cloudy and breezy Tuesday.
Tuesday brought scattered rain showers to the valleys of the Wasatch Front, along with a dusting of fresh snow to the mountains, with high temperatures cooling into the mid-50s. Wednesday also was forecast to stay around the mid-50s, though by evening the horizons were to be mostly clear of rain clouds.
Southern Utahns got the same 10-20 mph winds, gusting to 30 mph near the canyons, but not the precipitation of their northern cousins. Highs Wednesday in Utah's Dixie were pegged in the mid-70s, up a few degrees from Tuesday's forecast.
The Utah Division of Air Quality gave the entire state "green," or healthy air quality grades through the midweek, but the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website had dire news for those of us prone to pollen-born misery: cottonwood, cedar, oak, willow and ash all were at "very high" levels as of Tuesday, while birch, maple and elm came in at "high."
The Utah Avalanche Center still warned that the mountain backcountry slopes could prove dangerous: all of the state's mountains, with the exception of the "low" risk Logan peaks, were at "moderate" risk for potentially deadly snowslides.
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