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The day after Thanksgiving dawned cold. The downtown train was on a holiday schedule, so your toes, fingers and knees froze as you stomped and shivered an hour until, finally, it arrived.

"Starbuckssss," you mumble with chattering self-encouragement — only to find darkness and no steaming dark roast brew for you.

But take courage! The Friday forecast was for frost to retreat by day's end with highs around 50 degrees along the Wasatch Front. Saturday, albeit with south winds of 10-20 mph, promised highs in the mid-50s and mostly clear skies for the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys.

A fine day to engage in the annual shopping mall free-for-all for deals that always seem to be gone, piled into carts like pirate treasure, and defended with the same buccaneer avarice by scratched, bruised and glassy-eyed parents.

Or, you could just stay home, sip a hot drink, enjoy the glow of a fireplace and do that holiday shopping from your laptop.

By Sunday, storm clouds will return, highs will dip to into the upper-30s and valley rains during the day will become snow by evening. In the region's mountains, snowfall could be significant, accumulating multiple fresh inches.

Southern Utahns took a Thanksgiving encore on Friday under sunny skies with highs around 60 degrees. Saturday is more of the same, and a few degrees warmer. Stormy weather was expected to arrive by late evening — and Sunday will see rain, mountain show and highs in the upper-40s.

The Utah Division of Air Quality started Friday by noting degrading or "yellow" conditions in Salt Lake, Davis, Utah, Weber and Cache counties, but all those urban valleys join the remainder of the state as "green," or healthy through the weekend.

The Utah Avalanche Center rated the risk for potentially deadly backcountry snowslides as "moderate" for the mountains above Ogden and Salt Lake City.

For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/news/weather/.

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