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After all that unseasonable sunshine, northern Utah gets a wet weekend. It's all good, as guitar demigod Eric Clapton once observed: "The sun could never thaw away the bliss that lays around me."

So, let it rain. And on Saturday and Sunday, it will; the clouds gathering throughout Friday were to persist along the Wasatch Front. Beginning with isolated showers late Friday afternoon, a series of squalls were lining up for northern Utah.

While rain periodically pelts the valleys, snow — up to 6 inches — is expected to clothe the partially naked mountains usually clad in frozen white this time of year.

High temperatures will dip, too, from the warmth 15-20 degrees higher than normal for February down to a more standard range in the low 40s for the region.

Southern Utahns, however, got a pass from the return of winter-like weather. Utah's Dixie looks for highs in the low 70s on Saturday — same as forecast for Friday — under sunny to partly cloudy skies. Some scattered showers are expected on Sunday, though, with the temperatures dipping into the 50s.

The Utah Division of Air Quality graded the entire state as "green," or healthy for breathing into this weekend.

The Utah Avalanche Center rated the risk for potentially deadly backcountry mountain snowslides as "low" throughout the state.

For more extensive forecast breakdowns visit the Tribune weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/weather/.

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