A temperature inversion occurs in the Salt Lake Valley when cold, dirty air gets trapped under warmer air. If there is no wind or a storm, the inversion can last for weeks. Snow doesn't melt, the air gets difficult to breathe, fog builds up and crystalizes on everything, and it stays bitter cold. I recall one winter when I was 16 when the inversion didn't lift for roughly a month; some days we couldn't even see across the street clearly.
Well, today in the Salt Lake Tribune, this article claims there is now a center that can predict these inversions a month in advance.
But most Salt Lake residents have always been able to predict temperature inversions. We call it "January."
Hahaha, yep, January is inversion. It's already started here, and the cold is killing me. Soon the smog will settle in. Fantastic.
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