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It's not just destined to be hot this weekend in Utah — it could be a record-setter for the Wasatch Front.
After thermometers flirt with 80 degrees on Friday, the forecast calls for 90-degree readings on Saturday and the mid-90s on Sunday for the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys.
Salt Lake City, which usually sees the upper-70s this time of year, will be within a few degrees of its 1994 record for the date (94 degrees) on Saturday; but on Sunday, the mercury will could very well match or supplant the 1988 mark of 96 degrees.
Record-setting or not, northern Utah will have clear, sunny skies this weekend.
The redrocks and high deserts of southern Utah will top triple-digits Saturday and Sunday, but should fall several degrees short of rewriting heat history.
Under sunny, blue skies, Utah's Dixie looked for Saturday and Sunday highs around 101 degrees — in both cases 6 degrees shy of records set in 1996 for those dates.
The Utah Division of Air Quality once more rated the entire state as "yellow," or at moderate levels for particulate pollution, going into the weekend.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported Friday that grass and mold were at "high" levels on its pollen index, but other allergens were "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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