This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2016, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
A "warm southwesterly flow aloft" has settled over northern Utah, forecasters say. You and I can just call it autumnal paradise.
Monday dawned at a balmy 55 degrees in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, and by afternoon the temperatures were to flirt with 80. Tuesday's highs will be in the low-70s and then hover right around 70 on Wednesday.
Sunny to partly-cloudy skies will reign over the Wasatch Front well into the mid-week, giving northern Utahns a blessed, prolonged warm weather denouement ahead of approaching colder weather.
"Autumn killed the summer with the softest kiss," as young urban poet Austin Keith writes. "Life is too short for all the lives I have dreamed of living."
Southern Utahns will see overnight lows in the mid- to upper-50s, but daytime highs will range in the low- to mid-80s through Wednesday. Clear and sunny skies, occasionally turning partly cloudy, will be the rule.
The Utah Division of Air Quality predicted breathing conditions through the midweek will be "green," or healthy, for all of the state's monitoring stations.
However, the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that sagebrush was "very high" and mold "high" on its pollen index as of Monday.
For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather/.
Twitter: @remims