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Utah was to get a midweek break from thunderstorms and locally heavy rain, but first it had to get through another wet Tuesday with elevated risks for flash floods, especially in the central and southern reaches of the state.
The National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Watch extending through Tuesday night for a swath of Utah running south from Utah County through Price, Manti, Richfield, Milford, Escalante, Cedar City, St. George and Zion National Park. Forecasters said the risk for potentially life-threatening floodwaters would be highest as a strong cycle of thunderstorms moved through the region in the early Tuesday afternoon and evening.
Utahns in the advisory areas were urged to avoid slot canyons, normally dry washes, high-elevation streams and rivers and slopes recently denuded by wildfires.
It may seem like a Jars of Clay song, "Rain, rain on my face. It hasn't stopped raining for days." But that's just Tuesday, so chin up. On Wednesday, you and the band can both "Open up your box of sunshine."
Along the northern Wasatch Front, less-energetic and scattered rain showers were forecast Tuesday, but Wednesday was to bring partly cloudy skies and a break from wet weather. High temperatures both days were to range in the upper-60s to low-70s, while overnight lows were pegged at the low-50s.
Southern Utah also expected a reprieve from storm clouds on Wednesday, when high temperatures wil be in the low- to mid-80s, about 5-10 degrees warmer than Tuesday's forecast.
The Utah Division of Air Quality rated air quality as "green," or healthy, through the midweek.
The Intermountain Allergy and Asthma website listed sagebrush as "very high," mold as "high," and other allergens "low" on its pollen index as of Tuesday.
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