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Every drop of rain, every roll of thunder, however infinitesimal, eases Utah's drought. The Beehive State will get a lot of both as it moves toward the weekend.

In other words, Yippee Ki Yay, Mother ... Nature. The wet cycle won't offset an unusually dry winter, but we'll take it.

The National Weather Service reported prodigious amounts of rainfall from the storm that rolled through the state for the 48-hour period extending through late Wednesday morning. Brigham City flirted with 2 inches of water, while the Bountiful Bench was just a fraction over 2 inches. Sandy measured .87 inches, Ogden came in at .79, the Logan airport measured .74, and Salt Lake City International Airport .48 inches.

More of the same is on tap through the midweek, as Thursday will bring scattered showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon, evening and into early Friday morning along the Wasatch Front. That pattern is an encore of the forecast for Wednesday, with daytime high temperatures in the mid- to upper-60s.

Southern Utahns will see an almost identical spell of wet weather, though highs will be a 15-20 degrees warmer in Utah's Dixie.

The Utah Division of Air Quality rated all monitoring locations — with the exception of a "yellow," or compromised air quality grade for Washington County — as in the "green," or healthy zone.

Mold was "high" on the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website's pollen index, with mulberry at "moderate" as of Wednesday.

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