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On this Star Wars Day (May the Fourth be with you), it doesn't take a Jedi knight to see a balmy, warm, clear and sunny midweek will soon give way to rain, cooler temperatures and occasional thunderstorms.
"Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future," Master Yoda said. "Many of the truths that we cling to depend on our point of view."
OK, then. Let's see it from the National Weather Service's point of view, and the force of meteorological science is strong within the Salt Lake City bureau. Forecasters there say that after Wednesday's highs in the low-80s along the Wasatch Front, Thursday will begin the same, then take an Anakin Skywalker-esque slide toward the dark side of cloud cover — and scattered evening rain and thunderclaps.
By Friday, increasing rainfall, accompanied by winds of 10-35 mph, will rule the region as daytime highs retreat into the low- to mid-70s.
If you seek more extended, and warmer weather, then you will need to, ahem, Luke father south. Utah's Dixie was to follow up Wednesday's near-90s under breezy, sunny skies, with a Thursday gradually increasing clouds and highs in the mid- to upper-80s. Friday, though, will relent to isolated rain showers and, by late evening, thunderstorms.
Storm activity is the friend of air quality, though. The Utah Division of Air Quality predicted that the "yellow," or compromised levels of particulate pollution over the Wasatch Front's urban valleys at midweek will improve to "green," or healthy by Friday.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website reported that mulberry and oak pollen levels were "very high" on Wednesday, but other allergens were "low," or had dropped completely off the pollen index.
For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather/, or visit not; there is no try.
May the forecast be with you, always.
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