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Overnight lows well below freezing and daytime highs, chilled by merciless breezes, struggling to reach the mid-30s. There's your northern Utah forecast.
"Cold has its own taste. It tastes of a bitten tongue," fantasy novelist Mark Lawrence wrote of such weather. "[It] means to kill you, not with wrath . . . but with the mercy of surrender."
If that seems a bit too dark for Salt Lake City's 25-degree Wednesday pre-dawn and afternoon high of 36, or the Wasatch Front's forecast for a snowy Thursday with lows in the upper teens and highs just above freezing, then perhaps Richelle E. Goodrich's prose says it better.
"It is in the coldest months that hugs linger snug, and they warm the soul the most," the author and poet observed.
The prolonged, warm embrace of a loved one could take the edge off the renewed snowfall expected to begin early Thursday morning and continue off-and-on throughout the day in Salt Lake and Tooele counties. Friday brings more of the same, along with bone-chilling winds of 15-25 mph.
Sunny and mostly clear skies are forecast for southern Utah, with daytime highs in the upper-40s through Friday. However, even in Utah's Dixie the cold will rule the nights — with the darkness the mercury will slide into the mid- to upper-20s.
The Utah Division of Air Quality awarded "green,"or healthy grades statewide when it comes to particulate pollution levels.
However,the Utah Avalanche Center warned Wednesday that the risk for potentially deadly mountain backcountry snowslides was "considerable" for the mountains above Ogden, Salt Lake City, Provo and Moab, as well as in the western Uintas. The Logan and Skyline districts were rated as "moderate" for avalanche danger.
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