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Utah has settled into a cycle of rain, thunderstorms, periodic sunshine and gusty winds as it slogs toward the weekend.

The National Weather Service predicts the precipitation will pelt the Wasatch Front Friday morning, with cloud cover building into thunder and lightning by the afternoon. On Thursday, the pattern was a little different — rain in the afternoon and thunderstorms in the evening — but daytime high temperatures were to be in the 60s, along with winds of 10-20 mph, both days.

Southern Utahns, too, looked for some rain as the work week wound down. Afternoon thunderstorms and morning rainfall were to forecast both days, along with 10-20 mph gusts. Temperatures were to rise into the mid-60s Friday, down about 10 degrees from Thursday's highs.

The storms were good news for the Utah Division of Air Quality, which rated all monitoring stations at "green," or healthy, into the weekend.

The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website rated "mulberry and mold as "high" but all other allergens were "low" on its pollen index as of Thursday.

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

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