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As of Friday, it was just 57 days until Christmas. But not only was Jack Frost not nipping as collective Wasatch Front noses — the region was setting warm temperature records.
After having reached 78 degrees Thursday for a high, beating a 1977 record of 76, Salt Lake City's predawn readings hit 58 degrees — crushing the previous warmest overnight low for Oct. 28 of 55 degrees, set in 1909.
Albert Camus was right. Sometimes, indeed, "Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
Don't get used to the unseasonable readings, though. By Friday night, northern Utahns will be opening umbrellas in gusty winds while dodging rain drops. Thunderstorms were to continue through the evening hours before settling down to rain showers into early Saturday morning.
Saturday will continue breezy with occasional showers pelting the region, with high temperatures in the upper-60s — a few degrees cooler than Friday's forecast. Sunday will bring more of the same, wet conditions and winds rising to 25 mph.
Winds of 10-25 mph will whip southern Utah, too, along with scattered rain showers and isolated thunderstorms. High temperatures in Utah's Dixie will hover around 80 degrees through the weekend.
The Utah Division of Air Quality loves the wind and rain. Air quality grades throughout the state were "green," or healthy through the weekend ahead.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that only mold was "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/.
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