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Utah's warmest temperatures of the year were forecast Thursday, but Friday will bring windy conditions ahead of a wet, thunderous weekend to the Wasatch Front.

Songs heralding sunshine after the rain? Dime a dozen. But to turn that inside out, that takes Swedish metal balladeers like Hammerfall: "Every second is a miracle for me, I believe after sunshine comes the rain." It just gets darker from there. Hint: What rhymes with "rain?" Pain.

Thursday's highs in the low-80s basked northern Utah under clear, calm, sunny skies, were more to the liking of Annie, that plucky little orphan of stage, screen and comics. Still, Friday morning will blow in with south winds of 10-20 mph, building to 30 mph by afternoon. By Friday night, scattered rain showers arrive; that precipitation will be widespread and constant throughout Saturday, when daytime temperatures tumble into the mid- to upper-50s.

Southern Utah gets a pass from the rain, but not the wind. After a partly cloudy Thursday in the upper-80s, Friday will feature winds of 10-25 mph in addition to highs approaching 90 degrees. Saturday will see a dip to the mid-70s and a resumption of the winds, but no precipitation was predicted.

The Utah Division of Air Quality generally awarded its "green," or healthy grades to air monitoring stations into the weekend, with the exception of urban valleys in Salt Lake, Davis, Weber and Washington counties, which were "yellow," for degraded air quality.

The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website offered a mixed bag as of Friday, too: mulberry pollen was at "very high" levels, while oak, sycamore and ash were "high," and birch and cedar "moderate."

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

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