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Northern Utahns will shiver, shudder and shake their way into the first weekend of December, but they still can conjure warm memories of November.

Indeed, the National Weather Service on Friday confirmed what most of us already suspected: November 2016 was the warmest on record for Salt Lake City, capping a meteorological fall (September through November) that also ranks as the state capital's warmest.

November 2016 averaged 47-degree highs, beating 1927's record of 46.8; it also was well above the month's normal daytime temperatures of 40 degrees. Seasonally, Fall 2016 averaged 57.5 degrees, beating 2015's 53-degree mark.

And of course, as previously reported, the latest Salt Lake City freeze on record was set Nov. 17, ending a 242-day run of temperatures above freezing.

Those are just memories now — and there was no doubt the mercury had staggered well below freezing in the predawn hours of Friday along the Wasatch Front. The Salt Lake Valley dipped into the low-20s ahead of Friday highs in the mid-30s, and Saturday morning will begin the mid-20s before settling in for upper-30s highs in the afternoon.

Come Sunday, after flirting with 30s at dawn, the region's thermometers will rise to 45 — ahead of a 10-degree slide to begin next week.

Friday and Saturday, while nippy and partly cloudy, will not bring much, if any new snowfall to the Wasatch valleys, but Sunday evening will bring a return of the white stuff to mountains and valleys alike.

Southern Utahns, too, will see sub-freezing overnight lows through the weekend. Daytime highs will reach into the mid-50s under partly cloudy skies, but no snowstorms were on the horizon. What Utah's Dixie will have, however, are winds of 25-35 mph, gusting above 50 mph near high desert canyons.

The Utah Division of Air Quality forecasts "green," or healthy conditions statewide extending into the weekend.

The Utah Avalanche Center rates the risk for potentially deadly backcountry mountain snowslides as "moderate" for all of the state's mountain areas.

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

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