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Christmas trees are on display in stores with costumes of ghouls, politicians and other monsters; turkeys are being stacked in refrigerated aisles nearby; and outside, the trees have shed carpet of gold, red and orange on the region's yards, parks and pathways.
Yes. It's beginning to feel a lot like . . . HallowThankMas. Think of Tom Turkey, Dracula and Santa Claus in a clown car speeding full-bore toward the mall, giddy at the prospect of busting open the doors to three months of materialistic mayhem.
At least, Ma Nature is immune to whims of commercialism. Summer is gone, Winter is on the way, and we're in the season between — its Autumn along the Wasatch Front. Highs on Tuesday will be in the upper-50s, down about 10 degrees from Monday's forecast. Wednesday will dawn in the upper-30s, and daytime highs again will stay in the 50s ahead of late-evening rain showers.
Southern Utah will warm to the low- to mid-70s, with overnight lows in the upper-40s to low-50s, on Tuesday and Wednesday, just a few degrees cooler than the forecast for Monday.
While Autumn's course is inevitable, it has nonetheless been a bit tardy this year. The National Weather Service confirms this October in Salt Lake City could be the warmest on record. The average high temperature this month, as of Monday, had been 60.7 degrees — on target to break the previous October mark of 60.0 degrees, set in 1988.
The Utah Division of Air Quality rates air quality statewide as "green," or healthy, extending into the midweek.
The Intermountain Allergy and Asthma website listed only mold at "moderate" on its pollen index as of Monday.
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