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Sunny mornings, cloudy afternoons, rainy evenings. That sums up northern Utah's weather forecast through the remainder of this week.

Following Wednesday's highs in the upper-80s along the Wasatch Front, thunderstorms and rain were forecast from midnight into the early morning hours of Thursday. Precipitation will ease with the dawn, with Thursday afternoon temperatures around 70 degrees.

Friday will bring intermittent sunshine and showers under partly cloudy skies with highs once more hovering around 70 in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys.

It is an age-old cycle of mid-spring in the Rockies, when Old Sol and storm clouds collude to create verdant forests and fields, and coax marigolds, sego lilies, primrose and purple sage from Utah's redrocks and high desert regions.

"Yet all these flowers, shrubs and trees spring from the self-same earth, the same sun shines upon them and the same clouds give them rain," as Bahá'í statesman Abdu'l-Bahá once observed.

Such perspective, along with a generous slathering of sunblock lotion, a broad-brimmed hat, sunglasses and a ready supply of water, would be a good idea for denizens of southern Utah in the days ahead.

Wednesday's highs topping triple digits in a windy Utah's Dixie will be followed by highs in the mid-90s on Thursday, also breezy with southeast winds of 15-25 mph. Friday will dawn clear and sunny, winds more subdued at 10-20 mph, and highs predicted to flirt with 90 degrees.

The Utah Division of Air Quality reported that only Cache and Tooele counties earned the coveted "green," or healthy grade extending toward the week's end; the remainder of the state's air monitoring stations show "yellow," or moderate for particulate pollution.

The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that both mulberry and grass were "high" on its pollen index as of Wednesday, while other allergens came in either "low," or did not register.

For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/news/weather/.

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