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Hot summer streets, and the pavements are burning . . . this heat has got right out of hand. Bananarama said it pretty well: It's a cruel, cruel (Utah) summer, alright.

Triple-digits once more ruled the Wasatch Front on Tuesday, and those scorching temperatures were will continue for the rest of the week. The Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, under clear, relentlessly sunny skies, expected a repeat of Tuesday's 101-degree weather on Wednesday, with the heat sizzling to 102 on Thursday.

Southern Utahns might consider those readings downright balmy compared to inferno they will endure. After highs around 106 degrees on Tuesday, Utah's Dixie — also under the merciless, mostly cloudless scowl of Old Sol — looked for 108 on Wednesday and 109 degrees on Thursday.

Little relief came with the fall of night, north or south. Along the Wasatch Range, overnight lows will range in the mid-70s, while southern Utah will bless the memory of air conditioning inventor Willis Carrier as "lows" fall only into the low-80s.

The Utah Division of Air Quality offers little encouragement for the days ahead, either. If you live in Salt Lake, Davis, Utah, Weber, Tooele, Carbon, Duchesne or Uintah counties, air quality will range between "orange," or unhealthy, to "yellow," or compromised when it comes to particulate pollution levels. Only Box Elder, Cache and Washington counties earned "green," or healthy grades the remainder of this week.

At least, the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that only mold was "high" on its pollen index as of Tuesday.

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

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