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Overnight snow and freezing rain combined to make driving northern Utah's roads both icy and dicey during Wednesday morning's commute.
Snowfall was light, in places amounting to a mere dusting, but with sub-freezing temperatures were the rule in the pre-dawn hours, and the region's interstates and highways were slippery, the Utah Department of Transportation warned.
Light snow was to continue along the Wasatch Front into Wednesday evening, making travel in mountain passes potentially treacherous at times.
UDOT issued a Road Weather Alert for slick road conditions ranging from accumulated snowfall of a couple inches to sleet and frozen slush. As of 8 a.m., Utah Highway Patrol troopers had responded to about two-dozen accidents and slideoffs, while Salt Lake Valley public safety dispatchers had logged nearl 20 crashes.
None of those accidents involved life-threatening injuries.
Wednesday's Wasatch Front mix of morning snow and afternoon rain, with overnight lows in the mid-20s and the forecast highs in the mid-30s, will give way Thursday to partly cloudy skies; lows again will be in the mid-20s and highs in the mid-30s.
On Friday, the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys will warm into the low-40s before cloud cover and 10-25 mph winds build head of evening rain, and at higher elevations snow.
Southern Utah looked for intermittent rain and highs in the low- to mid-50s through the remainder of the work week. Overnight lows will be in the low- to mid-30s during the period.
The Utah Division of Air Quality liked the combination of occasional windy weather and precipitation, giving the entire state "green," or healthy grades through the remainder of the week.
However, the Utah Avalanche Center warned that the danger for potentially deadly backcountry mountain snowslides was "considerable" for the mountains above Logan and Ogden. The remainder of the state's ranges — with the exception of the "low" risk Skyline district — came in at "moderate" for avalanche risks as of Wednesday.
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