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August ends, but not summer, yet. Still, as temperatures surge for perhaps the last time this year in Utah, you might hear the hottest season's clock winding down.

"We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage," musician, pundit and actor Henry Rollins once wrote. "We will welcome summer's ghost."

Well, eventually. But through Utah's midweek, anyway, summer's spirit remains hot and corporeal, driving the mercury into the upper-90s Tuesday and Wednesday along the Wasatch Front. On Thursday, the highs slip into the upper-80s as thunderstorms and rain arrive.

It seems that summer's exorcism will take longer in southern Utah. After highs on Tuesday topping triple-digits, Utah's Dixie was forecast slip just a couple degrees with the arrival of storm clouds on Wednesday. However, with thunderstorms and rain were to strengthen Thursday, driving highs downward into the upper-80s.

The Utah Division of Air Quality grades Salt Lake, Davis, Utah and Weber counties as "yellow," or compromised for particulate pollutants; the remainder of the state is rated at "green," or healthy through the midweek.

The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website notes that chenopods and sagebrush pollen levels were "high" on Tuesday, while mold and grass came in at "moderate."

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

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