Autumn along the Wasatch Front is a fickle thing, where a warm, windy Wednesday will be supplanted by a week-ending “Big Chill.”
That’s what the National Weather Service is calling northern Utah’s dramatic shift from midweek highs in the mid-70s to temperatures in the upper-50s Thursday and Friday.
The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore mused that such days are when the “music of the far-away summer flutters around [with] Autumn seeking its former nest.”
Overnight lows in the Salt Lake and Tooele valleys will leave room for no seasonal debate: low-40s before dawn Thursday, and upper-30s on Friday.