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Jack Frost will come soon enough. As for Utah's forecast for a warm weekend of regal leafy colors, Robert Frost is more to the point.
"Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold," the late, four-time Pulitzer Prize winning poet wrote. "Then leaf subsides to leaf, so Eden sank to grief, so dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."
It could be one of, if not the last sun-drenched weekend of the year, a precious kiss of warmth before Old Sol recedes toward winter. The Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, having teased 70 degrees on Friday, will climb into the low- to mid-70s on Saturday and Sunday ahead of wetter and cooler conditions next week.
Southern Utahns ushered in the weekend with highs in the mid-80s, under sunny, clear skies. Those temperatures will prevail Saturday and Sunday, though rain showers were on the horizons come Sunday night. Monday will dawn cloudy, bringing more precipitation to Utah's Dixie.
The Utah Division of Air Quality gives the Beehive State's denizens even more reason to venture outdoors this weekend: "green," or healthy air quality will prevail statewide.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that only mold registered as "high" on its pollen index as of Friday.
For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather/.
Click here to read Frost's poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay," in its entirety.
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