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Hey, like R&B singer Carl Thomas, "I don't mind if it rains forever. Let it rain, rain, let it rain."
Of course, it won't, at least in Utah; this is a desert state, after all. At least, the forecast calls for a couple days of wet, cooling "Summer Rain" relief from a spell of near triple-digit weather in the north, and above-100 degree days in the south.
The National Weather Service says we can thank a low pressure system coming out of the south for the welcome change from the heat. Storm clouds were beginning to shower the Wasatch Front before dawn Wednesday, when high temperatures were to stay in the mid- to upper-70s. Thursday's forecast called for early morning rain, but they a trend is for dissipating clouds and highs in the mid- to upper-80s before the region's typical late-August heat resumes.
Southern Utahns looked for two full days of thunderstorms and rain showers, dropping daytime highs into the upper-80s to low-90s.
The Utah Division of Air Quality rates all areas of the state as "green," or healthy through Thursday.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website rated chenopods "very high," sagebrush, ragweed and grass as "high," and mold as "low" on its pollen index as of Wednesday.
For more extensive forecast information, visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/weather.
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