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Partly cloudy skies and cool temperatures usher in the weekend, but Easter Sunday brings the promise of brighter, clearer and warmer weather to the Wasatch Front.
The Salt Lake and Tooele valleys expected anemic highs in the mid-50s on Saturday, same as Friday's forecast, and 5-7 degrees below normal for this time of year. But Sunday, dawning partly cloudy and then clearing to a sunny afternoon, will reach 70 degrees — about 10 degrees above the norm.
In other words, a perfect spring day for getting outside. As Katherine Lee Bates put it, "It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls."
Southern Utahns will see highs at or near averages for mid-April. Utah's Dixie expects to reach the upper-70s on Saturday, up a few degrees from Friday. Easter will be partly cloudy over the region's redrocks and high desert, but still hit the mid-80s — 5-7 degrees above the date's average.
The Utah Division of Air Quality had this forecast for all those Easter Egg hunts: "green," or healthy air quality statewide.
However, there was a nasty surprise from the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website: cottonwood, birch, oak and ragweed pollen was "high" as of Friday, with mulberry and maple rated at "moderate" levels.
For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/news/weather/.
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