Salt Lake City exists in a big bowl surrounded by a bunch of mountains. When the seasons change, the changing temperature traps some air in the bowl. I don’t know the specifics behind it, but what you end up with is thick nasty smog that hangs over the entire city in a gross haze for days to weeks at a time.
I’m not native to Utah but I spent a little over a year there for school, and I got to experience the inversion. Looking out from the balcony on my apartment in broad daylight, I was unable to see the street. It just faded out into nasty brown fog like Silent Hill but grosser. People were wearing masks if they needed to go outside.
What’s an inversion, in this context?
https://deq.utah.gov/daq/inversions
Salt Lake City exists in a big bowl surrounded by a bunch of mountains. When the seasons change, the changing temperature traps some air in the bowl. I don’t know the specifics behind it, but what you end up with is thick nasty smog that hangs over the entire city in a gross haze for days to weeks at a time.
I’m not native to Utah but I spent a little over a year there for school, and I got to experience the inversion. Looking out from the balcony on my apartment in broad daylight, I was unable to see the street. It just faded out into nasty brown fog like Silent Hill but grosser. People were wearing masks if they needed to go outside.