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Utah's week-launching forecast for warm valleys, mountains ablaze with color and near the peaks, would please American poet Stanley Horowitz.
"Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all," he once wrote, and those words perfectly characterizes Tuesday's sunny skies and high temperatures in the mid-70s — a near mirror of Monday's forecast — along the Wasatch Front.
At the higher elevations, temperatures overnight will dip to near freezing, adding an early-morning, frosty accent to northern and central Utah forests turning to orange and gold.
Southern Utahns anticipated highs in the mid- to upper-80s under clear, bright skies for both days, typical of Utah's Dixie and its more-reluctant farewell to summer.
The Utah Division of Air Quality graded the entire state at "green," or healthy breathing conditions into the midweek.
The Intermountain Allergy & Asthma website listed only sagebrush as "high" and mold as "moderate" on its pollen index as of Monday.
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