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The sun will not come out tomorrow; not for Utah, not for the planet. But Saturday will dawn bright, warm and windy.
That whole 1633 Galileo vs. Pope Urban VIII cosmological cage match notwithstanding, we still tend to buy into "sunrise," that mass cultural delusion about the Old Sol's apparent position from day to day.
But really, its the Earth's movement around the Sun that will make our G-type main sequence star "appear" in the morning — and bring high temperatures in the mid-80s as the weekend begins. ("Sunrise" Saturday comes at 6:20 a.m. MDT along the Wasatch Front, if you just can't shake the geocentric mindset).
Saturday also will bring some scattered, light rain showers to the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys, along with 10-20 mph winds. Sunday will debut dry under partly cloudy skies on the way to highs in the upper-70s, but a weak storm system is expected by sunset.
Oops. There is no "sunset." Still, it just wouldn't be the same if the theme song for "Fiddler on the Roof" was "Sunsight, Sunclipse," alternatives once suggested by architect/theorist Buckminster Fuller.
So, in southwestern Utah's St. George, 6:34 a.m. MDT will "sunrise/sunsight" Saturday, ushered in by breezes of 10-20 mph. Sunshine and clouds will compete throughout the day over Utah's Dixie as highs flirt with 90 degrees. Sunday will bring light morning showers, with the mercury sliding into the low-70s.
The Utah Division of Air Quality forecasts mostly "green," or healthy conditions throughout the state this weekend, though Washington, Duchesne and Uintah counties will remain in the "yellow," or compromised zone for particulate pollution levels.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website had mulberry pollen at "very high" levels as of Friday, while oak and sycamore came in at "high."
For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/news/weather/.
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