This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2016, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
The forecast for northern Utah's is for rain morning, afternoon, and evening, tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
But you don't need a dispirited soliloquy from Macbeth to tell you that. The National Weather Service confirms our current spell of stormy, wet and occasionally thunderous condition will stretch well into the coming weekend.
Along the Wasatch Front, Wednesday's cloudy skies and isolated rain showers came with daytime highs in the mid- to upper-50s. On Thursday, add some thunderstorms, and on Friday, too. "Creeps in this petty, [sodden] pace from day to day," indeed.
It will be wet in southern Utah, too, but what a difference 15-20 degrees will make. Utah's Dixie looks for highs approaching 70 degrees on Thursday, same as Wednesday's forecast. On Friday, once more, the rain will come with sunshine, again flirting not with "Fahrenheit 451," but 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
A more contemporary bard, Ray Bradbury. might celebrate a walk in that warm rain, hiking into the glistening redrocks. "Sometimes," he wrote, "I like to put my head back . . . and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?"
The Utah Division of Air Quality says those swirling, water-laden clouds will freshen the atmosphere, allowing monitoring stations statewide to register "green," or healthy air results through the remainder of the week.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that this time around, that clean air also will be relatively allergen-free: only mulberry pollen was "high" as of Wednesday, while oak came in at "moderate."
For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather/.
Twitter: @remims