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Enjoy this week's meteorological rollercoaster ride, Utah? Time to roll to a calmer, sunnier spring stop, take a deep, cleansing breath and saunter into the weekend.

After a week of semi-tipping winds, dust and snow storms, sub-freezing low temperatures and valley rain squalls, Saturday will dawn along the Wasatch Front with a mild breeze, bright skies and highs in the upper-60s — up 5-7 degrees from Friday. Sunday will be a repeat of more typical balmy spring weather.

Southern Utahns will welcome the weekend with cutoffs, tank tops and sunglasses while slathering on the sunblock lotion: Saturday highs, under clear, sunny skies, will hover around 80 degrees, up a few degrees from Friday's forecast. Sunday will approach the mid-80s in Utah's Dixie.

However, the last vestiges of the cold front that rocked the Beehive State earlier this week will take parting shots at eastern Utah, where a Winter Storm Warning was in place until 6 a.m. Saturday for the eastern Uintas and Monticello area. Snow of 5-10 inches was expected above 8,000 feet, with 2-5 inches of the white stuff on tap for mountain elevations below that.

While impressive, those forecast totals paled compared to Thursday storm measurements in northern and central Utah. The National Weather Service reported a whopping 45 inches at Snowbird resort, 34 inches at Alta and 23 and 22, respectively, at Big Cottonwood-Spruces and Brighton.

The upper Millcreek area of Salt Lake County measured 14 inches, while Bountiful had 12, Ogden and Logan 11, and the University of Utah's Salt Lake City campus registered 10 inches. Downtown Salt Lake City reported 5 inches.

The Utah Division of Air Quality anticipated the weekend with "green," or healthy conditions for all monitoring stations.

The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website pollen index as of Friday noted that mulberry and oak allergens were "very high," while maple and sycamore were "high" and birch "moderate."

For more extensive forecast information, visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/weather.

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