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After offering tantalizing peeks of sunny, spring days early on, March will make a cool, wet exit this week from northern Utah.
Indeed, the National Weather Service has placed the western two-thirds of the state under a Hazardous Weather Outlook, warning of intermittent rain showers in the valleys and snow flurries in the mountains through Friday.
After Wednesday's forecast for a sunny morning ahead of highs around 60 degrees, the Wasatch Front expected increasing clouds through the evening early Thursday hours. Showers, along with the occasional thunderclap, were expected throughout Thursday, with highs dipping into the mid-50s.
A rain-snow mix was forecast for Friday, with the day's high temperatures even chillier, in the upper-40s. Winds of 10-20 mph will had to the unsettled conditions.
Southern Utahns also looked for a sunny and dry Wednesday, with the mercury climbing into the mid-70s before clouds built toward evening. By Thursday afternoon, showers and thunderstorms will arrive in Utah's Dixie, dropping highs about 5-7 degrees. The rains will continue throughout Friday, with highs in the upper-50s.
Nothing like storms to put smiles on the faces of the folks at the Utah Division of Air Quality. The agency rated air quality as "green," or healthy, statewide through the remainder of the week.
Even the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website gave Utahns a break, rating only cottonwood and mold at "moderate" levels. No other allergens were more than "low" on the site's pollen index as of Wednesday.
For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/news/weather/.
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