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Utah is due for sunshine, a midweek smile from a middle-aged, 4.5 billion year old star that glowed when we were primordial ooze, will still burn when we are dust — and welcome in the moment, nonetheless.
There's some perspective for you. But back to that linear, finite human world view of weather's vagaries: Wednesday — after partly cloudy Monday's mid-60s along the Wasatch Front — will see bright skies, high temperatures in the mid-70s, and southeast breezes to caress glistening Homo sapien brows.
Thursday will come with 10-20 mph morning winds, sunny skies in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys turning partly cloudy in the afternoon as highs again hit the mid-70s, and then evening rain showers.
So, feel the rays. After all, you are "star stuff," as Carl Sagan once observed, that accounts for the "nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies . . . . "
Southern Utah, blessed by a few hundred miles of planetary curvature that puts it ever so slightly more directly under Old Sol as Earth hurtles through space at 67,000 mph, will see highs Wednesday in the mid-80s, up about 5 degrees from Tuesday's daytime temperatures.
Winds of 15-25 mph arrive Thursday in Utah's Dixie, but while they may kick up the dust of the redrocks and high desert, the mercury still will climb into the mid-80s under sunny horizons.
The Utah Division of Air Quality gives a "green" thumb's up to breathing conditions statewide through the midweek, in part thanks to prevailing breezing conditions.
But lest we forget the wonders of photosynthesis, sunshine brings spring flowers, and blooming means pollen. The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website rated cottonwood "very high" on its pollen index on Tuesday, with willow, oak and maple in the "moderate" zone.
For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/news/weather/.
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