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How nice is Utah's midweek spring forecast? Likely enough to have made Mark Twain abandon humor for some rare, serious poetry.
Noting toasty spring days similar to the Wasatch Front's weather, the occasionally acid-penned, 19th century curmudgeon once scribbled these lines: "Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. . . . "
Indeed, under sunny, clear skies, northern Utahns looked for warm, breezy skies and highs in the low-70s Tuesday, with the mercury rising to near 80 degrees on Wednesday.
Southern Utahns could underscore that forecast with temperatures both days about 10 degrees warmer. Look for sun block-slathered, cutoffs-clad denizens of Utah's Dixie to bask in the sunshine as temperatures flirt with the mid-80s to near-90 degrees.
The Utah Division of Air Quality graded all monitoring stations as "green," or healthy for breathing for the next few days.
However, it was not a great forecast ahead for allergy sufferers. The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website's index as of Tuesday ranked maple, ash and sycamore pollen at "very high" levels, while oak was "high" and mulberry came in at "moderate."
For more extensive forecast information, visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/weather.
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