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Spring, like the flowers it brings, is bursting forth like a bouquet of sunshine as Utah shifts into the last days of the work week.
Thursday will see clear, bright skies along the Wasatch Front with high temperatures in the upper-70s, about 5-7 degrees warmer than Wednesday. Friday will bring blue horizons glowing into the mid-80s in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, while Saturday, also clear, promises highs in the low-80s.
"It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me and the sunshine," English naturalist John Richard Jefferies wrote, urging a moment's visceral reflection on such days.
Still, "eternity" should be accessorized with a broad-brimmed hat, sunblock lotion, and a bottle of water in the state's southern redrocks and high deserts in the coming days.
Thursday in Utah's Dixie also will be sunny and clear, but highs will soar into the mid-90s, up some 5 degrees from Wednesday. Friday will again be hot, in the mid-90s, while Saturday comes with partly cloudy skies and highs a few degrees cooler.
The Utah Division of Air Quality includes the heavily populated Wasatch Front within the regions earning "green," or healthy grades, but Washington, Carbon, Duchesne and Uintah counties are at "yellow," or compromised for particulate pollution as the week winds down.
Mulberry was "very high," and sycamore and cedar "high" on the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website's pollen index as of Wednesday.
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