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Temperatures in the 80s along the Wasatch Front, and barely triple-digits in along state's southern border! Can you say "cooling trend?"

That's right. Actually, the National Weather Service says it is a "stronger cold front" that is on course for Utah as the week nears its end. Thermometers will retreat from those recent, near record-setting readings near 100 degrees in the Salt Lake area, and well over 110 in Utah's Dixie.

Thursday's highs in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys will climb into the upper 90s — up a couple degrees from Wednesday's forecast. On Friday, however, the region will see temperatures slide back into the upper-80s, and by Saturday, the low-80s.

Southern Utahns may just shrug at the effect of the "cold front." Highs on Thursday will be around 106 degrees, 1 degree cooler than Wednesday, and 5-6 degrees down from highs recorded in the past week. Friday will return to 105 territory, and Saturday will be at 104 degrees.

There's a difference there, to be sure. Cooler, perhaps, using the Dante index of, say, variances between the sixth and seventh circles of hell — in other words, still danged hot.

Speaking of hell, if you suffer from grass and mold allergies, the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website does not have good news for you: both were "high" on its pollen index as of Wednesday.

As for the Utah Division of Air Quality, breathing won't be heaven, but it won't be hell, either. Think more of a pulmonary purgatory or air quality limbo: all areas of the state, with the exception of Washington County, are graded at "yellow," or moderate for those particulate pollution.

For more extensive forecast information, visit The Salt Lake Tribune's weather page at: http//www.sltrib.com/weather/.

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