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Mixing meteorological and culinary metaphors, you might call Utah's forecast through the midweek a "spring sampler."
Ma Nature is piling generous portions of wind, rain, sunshine, thunderstorms and mild temperatures onto the Wasatch Front's weather plate. Tuesday dawned with 15-20 mph winds, gusting to near 50 mph in place, with the forecast calling for mostly cloudy skies, isolated rain showers and thunderstorms as highs stated in the upper-60s.
The same pattern will prevail on Wednesday, though highs will be in the low-70s, and again on Thursday, when the mercury will climb to near 80 degrees.
Southern Utahns add about 5-10 degrees to their high temperatures during the same period, but otherwise look for the same cycle of cloudy skies taking turns to sunshine, scattered rain showers and thunderstorms. High temperatures, pegged at near 80 on Tuesday, climb a few degrees on Wednesday, and then flirt with 90 on Thursday.
That mixed- bag theme extends to the quality of the air we breathe. The Utah Division of Air Quality, which had graded most of the state "green," or healthy on Tuesday, downgraded air quality for Salt Lake, Davis, Utah, Weber, Washington, Carbon, Duchesne and Uintah counties to "yellow," or moderate for particulate pollution, beginning Wednesday.
Only rural Box Elder, Cache and Tooele counties were expected to maintain their fresh air conditions at the midweek point.
At least, allergy sufferers get a break. As of Tuesday, the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website was not listing any elevated levels for pollen.
For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather/.
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