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Utah is getting a break from its recent spell of record-setting, triple-digit temperatures as the new work week unfolds with thunderstorms and rain, at times locally heavy, on the horizon.
Along the Wasatch Front, which baked in the upper-90s and low-100s over the Independence Day weekend, the mercury was to dip into the mid- to upper-80s on Tuesday — a mirror of Monday's forecast for the region.
Southern Utahns, too, looked for a temperature retreat of some 10 degrees or so, into the mid- to upper-90s. Utah's Dixie also will get some wet relief: afternoon and evening thunderstorms were forecast for both days.
Slight improvement is coming for the quality of the air we breath, too. Gone are the "orange," or unhealthy grades that prevailed from late last week through the holiday weekend. While Salt Lake, Weber, Utah, Davis and Duchesne counties improved to "yellow," or compromised breathing conditions, the Utah Division of Air Quality rated the rest of the state's monitoring stations as "green," or healthy.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website listed cattail pollen as "very high," mold and grass pollen as "high"and Linden, chenopods and plantain pollen as "moderate" as of Monday.
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