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Friday's forecast calls for a weak storm system to dust northern and central Utah with a fresh coat of snow. Think of it as sort of a meteorological Milton Berle-esque call for "Makeup!" Just a puff of the white stuff.
The National Weather Service says the first pulse of the storm, which furtively entered the state Thursday morning, will be followed by an equally wimpy flutter of snow late Thursday into early Friday morning. Neither of the storms were expected to bring more than an inch or two to valley locations, and just 1-4 inches to the mountains.
The snowfall will periodically bring enhanced winter driving conditions to high-elevation locales north of Interstate 80, but otherwise, like Uncle Miltie enduring the Muppets, will be heckled off the forecast stage.
After the brush with snow flurries on Thursday, the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys looked for partly cloudy skies and high temperatures in the mid-30s Friday — up a few degrees from the prior day. Overnight lows were expected to be in the low-20s.
Southern Utahns escaped even a light, wet slap from the new storms. Highs on Friday, under sunny skies, were to rise to nearly 50 degrees, same as on Thursday. Overnight lows will range into the upper-20s.
The Utah Avalanche Center rated the risk for potentially deadly backcountry snowslides at "considerable" for all areas of the state as of Thursday.
The Utah Division of Air Quality gave "green," or healthy air quality grades to all of the state's monitoring districts.
For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather.
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