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Did Utah's near-record setting weekend warmth make memories of cooler, wetter spring fleeting? Well, time to remember, once more.

Like Sara Teasdale once wrote, "I thought I had forgotten, but it all came back again [with] spring thunder, in a rush of rain." Depending on where you were Monday and again on Tuesday, you might see the American poet's lyrical words take form as, "Thunder gripping the earth, and lightning scrawled on the sky."

That will be true along the Wasatch Front, where scattered showers and thunderstorms driven by 10-20 mph winds were forecast both days. High temperatures, in the upper-80s this past weekend, will dip into the low- to mid-60s.

Isolated showers, and the occasional thunderstorm, also were on the meteorological menu for southern Utah in this work week's opening days. Heavy rain was reported between Cedar City and St. George early Monday afternoon.

Under breezy skies, Tuesday's high temperatures in Utah's Dixie will be again near 80 degrees.

The Utah Division of Air Quality presented a mixed bag for the region. "Yellow," or moderate for particulate pollution levels, was designated for Weber, Box Elder, Cache, Washington, Duchesne and Uintah counties, while the remainder of the state — including Salt Lake and Utah counties — were "green," or healthy for air quality.

Good news for allergy suffers, however. The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that none of the usual sneezing and congestion suspect plants and trees showed up any higher than "low" on its pollen index as of Monday morning.

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

(To read or hear Teasdale's entire "Spring Rain" poem: http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spring-rain-3/)

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