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Maybe Ellen DeGeneres should tackle northern Utah's forecast. After all, with near-freezing overnight temperatures and Friday morning snowfall, it looked a lot more like Christmas than spring.
Kind of like her daytime TV programming of late, where the comedian has reprised her "Twelve Days of Christmas Giveaways" with an April version, complete with a dancing reindeer mascot.
South and east of the Great Salt Lake, 1-3 inches of snow fell Friday morning. The forecast was for continued wind-blown snowfall into the afternoon hours before morphing into cold rain. Saturday, under sunny skies, will reach the mid-50s — 5-7 degrees warmer than Friday.
Sunday, alternating between bright and clear and cloudy skies, will see highs in the low-60s along the Wasatch Front.
If not struggling to stand in the wind, Ellen's reindeer would be sweating like a snowman in the desert if her show went on the road to Utah's Dixie.
A Wind Advisory was in place from 10 p.m. Friday through 10 a.m. Saturday for southwestern Utah; winds of 25-35 mph, with gusts near 55 mph, were expected.
Meanwhile, high temperatures in the St. George area will hit the low-70s Saturday, up about 5 degrees from Friday's forecast; Sunday will bring temperatures in the upper-70s under clear, sunny horizons.
The Utah Division of Air Quality gave "green," or healthy grades to most of the state's monitoring districts through the weekend, but Washington, Carbon, Duchesne and Uintah counties were classified as "yellow," or compromised for particulate pollution levels.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported mulberry was "high" and sycamore at "moderate" pollen levels as of Friday, but other allergens were either "low," or did not register in the site's index.
For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/news/weather/.
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