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Rain, thunder, sunshine and more rain: It's a pattern so recently persistent that it might even tease a smile from fictional Navajo police officer and shaman-in-training Jim Chee.

"From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it," the late Tony Hillerman had his quintessential character once muse in "Coyote Waits." Those words also sum up Utah's wet, Memorial Day weekend forecast.

Along the Wasatch Front, Saturday — in a repeat of Friday's forecast — will dawn with a plethora of showers and isolated thunderstorms, along with periodic breaks of sunshine bringing temperatures in the low-60s ahead of yet more precipitation and thunderclaps in the afternoon and evening hours.

First, those pulses of moisture-laden clouds out of the Pacific and Southern California will roll over Hillerman's beloved Monument Valley and into southern Utah on their course north and east. Utah's Dixie looked for wet weather, thunderstorms and — when the sunshine periodically asserts itself — high temperatures in the upper-60s on Saturday, a mirror of Friday's forecast.

The Utah Division of Air Quality rated all monitoring locations in the "green," or healthy category through the weekend.

Mold was "high" on the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website's pollen index, but all other allergens ranked "low" as of Friday.

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

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