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So, is it late summer echoing in a forlorn bid for unseasonable resurrection along the Wasatch Front, or winter merely delayed?
Daytime highs in the low-60s forecast for the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys — following on near-freezing overnight lows — were forecast from Thursday into the weekend.
In our region's brief, confused autumn, you take your pick, choose your reality. "Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion," as poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote.
Then again, editor-author Daniel Nayeri asks, "If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters?" The National Weather Service won't argue the point; it's meteorologists are confident the clear, sunny skies and riot of fall colors ushering into northern Utah's weekend are real as it gets.
Southern Utahns have even nicer conditions in which muse over such existential climatology. After Thursday's sunny mid-70s, Utah's Dixie looked for more of the same Friday, though accompanied by clouds and scattered rain showers. Saturday will see partly cloudy morning giving way to bright afternoon, and more of those mid-70s.
Albert Einstein quipped that,"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." But your lungs will affirm what the Utah Division of Air Quality predicts: "green," or healthy air statewide through the remainder of this week.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that only mold ranked "high" on its pollen index as of Thursday.
For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather/.
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