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Cooling rain after hot, dry desert days? It's a blessing, not a mystery, Utah.

Still, the forecast for a cycle of thunderstorms beginning late Tuesday might be said to be an Enigma . . . song.

The German New Age band's evocative style seems a perfect, primal foreshadowing of the Wasatch Front's coming transition from near 100-degree temperatures of Monday and Tuesday to the storm clouds, rain, and upper-70s moving into the region by Wednesday.

Nature is to play the same song, perhaps louder, in southern Utah. Temperatures in Utah's Dixie Monday were forecast to top triple digits. But the arrival of storm clouds and precipitation were to drop the mercury into the mid-90s on Tuesday, and upper-80s to low-90s on Wednesday as the wet cycle replays.

The shift in weather patterns also will have a positive impact on our lungs. The Utah Division of Air Quality rates Salt Lake, Davis, Utah, Tooele, Washington, Carbon, Duchesne and Uintah counties as "green," or healthy by Tuesday; the remainder of the state's monitoring districts will be "yellow," or compromised, as smoke from California and Washington wildfires continued to affect the atmosphere here.

The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website rated chenopods "very high," mold as "high," and sagebrush and grass as "moderate" on its pollen index as of Monday.

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

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