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Say goodbye to summer, or at least its record-setting heat: the rest of this week will see a markedly cooler and wetter turn for Utah.
Wednesday's 94-degree record temperature for Salt Lake City appears to be Ma Nature's last, sizzling roundhouse slap before the official arrival of autumn on Monday. Temperatures on Thursday were forecast to be in the mid- to upper-80s along the Wasatch Front.
Thunderstorms and rain were expected to settle in by Thursday night, heralded by winds of 20 mph. Highs on Friday, as the precipitation increases, will be in the upper-70s.
Thunderstorms and rain also were moving into southern Utah, where daytime temperatures were forecast to dip from Thursday's mid-90s to the upper-80s and low-90s on Friday.
Rain and wind do clear away the pollution from Utah's urban valleys, though, as evidenced by the Utah Division of Air Quality forecast of "green," or healthy conditions for the entire state heading into the weekend.
Maybe the rain will eventually help allergy sufferers, too, but on Thursday the Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website still warned that sagebrush was "very high," ragweed "high" and chenopods and mold were "moderate" on its pollen index.
To find more detailed forecast information, visit the Tribune's weather page at http://www.sltrib.com/weather.
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