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In wet waves, valley rain and mountain snow flurries will escort the Wasatch Front into a drier, warmer weekend.
Until then, as Langston Hughes drolly observed, "It raineth on the Just and the Unjust Alike, but the Unjust stealeth the Just's umbrella."
And so, you soggy, bareheaded Utahns caught in the storm, the late "jazz poet" advises a sigh and surrender: " Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby."
Thursday's intermittent showers in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys come with high temperatures in the upper-40s, 5-7 degrees cooler than a rainy Wednesday. On Friday, the rainfall will intensify, and some snow could show up along the benches.
Southern Utahns will deal with 10-20 mph winds but escape the precipitation through the remainder of the week. Highs will range from the mid- to upper-70s through Thursday before retreating into the mid-60s on a partly cloudy Friday.
With the sole exception of Washington County ("yellow," or compromised for particulate pollution levels), the Utah Division of Air Quality rated conditions as "green," or healthy statewide through the remainder of the week.
Mulberry was "very high" and cedar and oak "high" on the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website's pollen index. Sycamore, birch, willow and maple were "moderate" for allergen contributions 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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