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Even Pollyanna, and dare we say Little Orphan Annie, would be hard-pressed to keep their cool when confronted with Utah's sizzling hot temperatures ahead this week.

Sure, adjusting her wilted bonnet, Pollyanna might view the Wasatch Front's triple-digit heat and insist, albeit with less conviction, that "there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it."

Hmm. OK, while Salt Lake City dreaded 100-degree readings forecast for Monday through the rest of the week, at least they weren't record-setting predictions. The same was not true for southern Utah, where highs during the same period will be around 110 and higher — flirting with records.

Oh, yes. Annie can sing all she wants about "Tomorrow," and the sun will definitely be coming up — with a vengeance. She is a plucky little redhead, but odds are Daddy Warbucks' ward would warble with decidedly wilted despair.

Even the overnight lows — record-settingly warm all last week along the Wasatch Front — will offer little comfort. The Salt Lake and Tooele valleys expected nights in the low- to mid-70s, with Utah's Dixie tormenting sleepers with "lows" around 80 degrees.

The Utah Division of Air Quality didn't do much to elevate the mood, either. Hot weather is not the friend of clean air for the state's urban valleys: Salt Lake, Davis and Utah counties all began the week with "unhealthy" grades, and conditions will remain compromised through midweek for those areas and most of the rest of the state; only Box Elder, Cache and Washington counties were rated as "green," or healthy.

At least the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website offered some good news, rating only "mold" as high on its pollen index as of Monday.

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

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