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Dark storm clouds, thunderstorms and rain from northern to southern Utah. Now, there's a forecast even Swedish doom/gothic metal rockers would like.
As the band Lake of Tears puts it, "I feel brighter somehow, lighter somehow to breath once again; so fell autumn rain, washed my sorrows away."
So, wet everywhere in Zion, with daytime high temperatures Tuesday along the Wasatch Front dip into the upper-60s and low-70s, and only few degrees warmer in Utah's Dixie. That's a mirror forecast of Monday's.
Ja. Ingen ko på isen. "No worries." (OK, literally, that's "There's no cow on the ice." Hey, it's Swedish; it's cold up there, and they like bovines).
The National Weather Service cautions that the state's steady, and locally heavy rainfall could flood streets to valley municipalities, swollen streams and rivers, and fill usually dry slot canyons. And, at elevations above 9,000 feet, snow could fall and stay.
Indeed, a Flash Flood Watch was in effect into late Monday evening for portions of central and southern Utah, including Zion, Lake Powell, Price, Kanab, and St. George.
The Utah Division of Air Quality rated air quality as "green," or healthy, into the midweek.
The Intermountain Allergy and Asthma website listed sagebrush as "very high," mold as "high," and other allergens "low" on its pollen index as of Monday.
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