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Sunday 17 Jan 2010
Fresh Air
Well, I chose to head south, of course. And, I have to say, it’s been nice to breathe relatively clean air the last two days. Look, you can actually see the sky!
For those of you who asked, during the winter Salt Lake City often experiences something called a temperature inversion. Basically, for reasons I don’t fully understand, the air near the ground becomes cooler than the air above. (The temperature is actually higher at the ski resorts than it is in the valley.) This traps pollution near the valley floor and it doesn’t clear out until we get a storm. Because we haven’t had a storm in weeks, the Salt Lake Valley is filled with polluted air that’s just sitting over the entire city. Yuck.
I live above the valley, near the foothills, and I usually escape the worst of the gunk. But the layer of smog has been rising rapidly and it finally overtook my house. So I escaped to the land of casinos and shopping.
But even where there’s sun and air, a girl can still enjoy knitting a thrummed mitten.
