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Dry and comfortable end to the weekend - Pattern change midweek

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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) — Happy Sunday, Utah! We’ll see another beautiful day in store with sunshine and some increasing cloud coverage across southern Utah. Daytime highs will warm right around average with highs in the upper 60’s and a few low 70’s for northern and central Utah and low to mid 70’s across southern Utah.

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