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Strolling downtown Salt Lake City's baked concrete Thursday afternoon, Truman Capote might doff his Panama hat, fan his glistening, pale brow and muse about how, "Hot weather opens the skull of a city."
Temperatures once more climbed into triple digits in the capital, the radiant urban heat "exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a light bulb," as the late novelist once observed.
South winds of 10-20 mph were predicted to whisk away some of the sweat along the Wasatch Front, which was to bring temperatures in the upper-90s on Friday, down just a couple degrees from Thursday's forecast high of 101 degrees. (By the way, Thursday's official low temperature in Salt Lake City, 79 degrees, beat by 2 degrees the previous record-high minimum set in 1877).
Nothing of Cold Blood in southern Utah's temperatures, either. With the mercury bubbling well above 100 degrees, Capote might make a quick retreat into the shade of St. George with his favorite icy "orange drink," a large Screwdriver cocktail. St. George, at 104 degrees Thursday, was to soar to 105 on Friday, and 107 on Saturday.
The Utah Division of Air Quality rated Salt Lake and Utah counties as "yellow," or moderate for particulate pollution through the remainder of this week, but the remainder of the state earned "green," or healthy grades.
Mold was "high" and chenopods were "moderate" on the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website's pollen index Thursday, but other allergens were no-shows.
For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather/.
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