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Take a cue from the state's unofficial dog, the golden retriever, and shake off the rain, Utah: a warmer, drier and sunnier week lies ahead, with all the allure of a favorite chew toy.
In these dog days of summer, temperatures along the Wasatch Front will rise to around 90 degrees on Wednesday, a couple degrees warmer than Tuesday's forecast. Partly cloudy skies are done, for now, with the drenching rains of earlier this week, though south winds of 10-25 mph will cool off afternoons.
The National Weather Service had some impressive rain totals for the two-day period ending 8 p.m. Monday: Fruit Heights measured 3.27 inches, Layton 2.3, Kaysville 2, Provo 1.5, and Salt Lake City, West Valley City and Ogden about an inch each.
If you expect Rover to play fetch in southern Utah . . . well, that dog won't hunt. It's going to top triple digits in Utah's Dixie Wednesday under clear, sunny skies — a mirror image of Tuesday's forecast. Once again, though, evening breezes will ease the heat some; consider those gusts of 15-25 mph the paws that refresh(es).
Sorry. Remember, to err is human, to forgive, canine.
The Utah Division of Air Quality rated Salt Lake and Davis counties as "yellow," or compromised through the midweek, but the remainder of the state's monitoring stations get "green," or healthy ratings.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website rated chenopods as "very high," mold "high"and other allergens "low" on its pollen index as of Tuesday.
In other words, keep especially sensitive hounds away from chenopods — such high-pollinating Utah plants as Pigweed, Russian Thistle, Iodine Bush, Lambs Quarters, Scale, Greasewood and Burning Bush. Seriously, why risk a mucosal maelstrom from your mutt?
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