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"Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life," John Updike wrote.
The National Weather Service says rain also is what Utah, from north to south and east to west, can expect stretching into the coming weekend.
On Thursday, the Wasatch Front cooled to the mid- to upper-50s under those water-laden storm clouds, and there were even reports of light snow in Park City and other higher elevation locales. More rain, and the chance for non-accumulating mountain snow, was on tap for Friday, too, with highs in the upper-50s.
Saturday? Yes! rain, again — and moving south won't help you escape the precipitation, either.
Utah's Dixie will be subject to rain showers Saturday, just as it was predicted to be Thursday and Friday. Even some thunderstorms will drift over the high deserts and redrocks, so if you find yourself on one the region's golf courses then the dark clouds build, remember what comedian Bob Hope advised.
"If I'm on the course and lightning starts, I get inside fast," he quipped. "If God wants to play through, let him."
Along with the rain, southern Utahns will see some periodic, partly cloudy breaks and high temperatures in the mid-60s the remainder of this work week and into the weekend.
Isolated pockets of the state's northeastern and southeastern mountains — the eastern Uintas, along with the La Sal and Abajo ranges, respectively — were under a Winter Weather Advisory through 9 p.m. Friday. Generally, totals of 4-8 inches of snow were expected at 9,000 feet elevation and higher.
The Utah Division of Air Quality rated most of the state as "green," or healthy, though Salt Lake, Davis, Duchesne and Uintah counties were graded "yellow," or moderate for particulate pollution levels over the next couple days.
Only mulberry pollen was "high" on the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website as of Friday, so allergy sufferers — though they will get wet — can enjoy a walk or hike or bike ride.
For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather/.
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