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Cold, wet and windy weather will close out both this work week and the month of April in northern Utah.
Rain showers will cycle through the Wasatch Front before storm clouds begin to break up Saturday morning, ushering in an afternoon of mid-50s temperatures. That will be considerably warmer than Friday, when morning snow could dust the valleys ahead of daytime temperatures in the mid- to upper-40s.
Perspective is all. John Updike saw rain as "grace . . . the sky descending to the earth," declaring that, "without rain, there would be no life."
Well, maybe practical perspective has a place, tool. As Cold War-era Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev put it, "If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen."
Southern Utahns skip the rain, but winds of 10-25 mph will blow the clouds across the redrocks and high deserts going into the weekend. Highs Friday for Utah's Dixie will be in the mid-60s under partly cloudy skies, but sunshine will rule on Saturday as the mercury flutters to near 70 degrees.
The Utah Division of Air Quality is coloring the entire state "green," or healthy for breathing, into the weekend.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website rated sycamore and mulberry pollens "high" as of Thursday, but other allergens were either "low" or didn't register.
For more extensive forecast information visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/news/weather/.
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