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"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun," Kahlil Gibran wrote, and he would love Utah's midweek forecast for dry, balmy days and bright, clear horizons.

The Lebanese-American poet declared that, "We live only to discover beauty, all else is a form of waiting," and for the Beehive State, the waiting — through cold rain, thunder, and windstorms — was over beginning Tuesday. Temperatures along the Wasatch Front were forecast to reach the mid-70s; Wednesday's highs will flirt with 80 degrees, along with 10-20 mph winds to dry your sun-drenched brow.

Southern Utah's forecast provides even more reason to take Gibran's advice to, "forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair."

Utah's Dixie looked for its own breezes through the midweek, along with sunny, clear skies. High temperatures on Wednesday were to climb to near 90, up a few degrees from Tuesday's predictions.

However, its was not all poetic bliss. The Utah Division of Air Quality, noting the degraded air settling over the state's urban valleys as the storms ceased, graded Salt Lake, Davis, Weber, Box Elder, Cache and Tooele counties as "yellow," or moderate for particulate pollution levels over the next couple days. The remainder of the state's air monitoring stations were reporting "green," or healthy conditions.

There was better news for allergy sufferers, though. The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that while mulberry pollen was at "very high" levels, oak "high," and mold "moderate," all other allergens were low.

To hear Gibran's parable, "The Dancer," visit this URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dofnpsY8TcQ

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

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