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As chilly temperatures mark the start of Utah’s holiday season, they also bring an unwelcome visitor to the state’s northern valleys — inversions and the dirty air trapped inside them.
Here is a list of Utah's the longest-recorded inversions documented by the U researchers: Longest inversion event period (1956-2010): Dec. 16, 1985 — 14.5 days. Jan. 28, 1984 — 10 days.
As chilly temperatures mark the start of Utah’s holiday season, they also bring an unwelcome visitor to the state’s northern ...
A weak storm is expected to move through northern Utah later in the week and could sweep some of the inversion away. Air quality map of Salt Lake Valley as of 10 a.m. Monday ...
Inversions can last for multiple days leading to poor air quality as the pollution accumulates near the surface, Becky Close, the policy manager at Utah's Department of Environmental Quality, said.
Winters in Utah usually come with inversions, smoggy lines of stagnant pollution dividing the Salt Lake Valley. And often, during the summer, the mountains become fuzzy with wildfire smoke. On bad ...
SALT LAKE CITY — There’s never been an inversion quite like this one, according to one University of Utah researcher. “It’s the worst inversion I’ve ever seen in the middle of February ...
Maps. Cameras. Ski Report. 2News Weather App. Sports. Features. Game Center. ... due to the Beehive State's cloud coverage along with the thick inversion Utah has been experiencing the last couple ...
Northern Utah will pick up between a dusting to 2 inches. This storm should be able to displace the ridge that's reinforcing the valley inversions, and air quality should improve as a result. STORM 2 ...
During a winter inversion, the amount of ammonium nitrate alone rises from about 45 percent of the Salt Lake Valley’s fine particle pollution to as much as 75 percent, according to Patrick Barickman, ...
Utah has a long way to go, however, because 93.7% of the state remains in severe drought conditions, down just 0.15% from a week ago. And the entire state remains at moderate or worse drought ...
With the Utah move, here's the current state of The Fix's electoral map: We now rate three states -- Arizona, Georgia and Utah -- as leaning Republican. That trio accounts for 33 electoral votes.