The stagnant air sitting across Salt Lake County last weekend seemed to grow unusually dense to the untrained eye, even for an inversion. Yet it wasn't entirely rare — and it wasn't all pollution, a meteorologist said.
Salt Lake City meteorologist explains unusually dense weekend inversion — and why it could happen again
Yet, according to a meteorologist who works in the National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City office, it wasn’t all pollution — the air quality didn’t significantly dip Saturday or Sunday compared to earlier last week. Snow can actually exacerbate poor air quality, he said, because it can cause “really strong, really shallow inversions that allow us to trap a lot of pollutants in a much shallower layer.”
Had there been, the air could have reached more hazardous levels and become unhealthy for everyone, he said. Last weekend, though, did not bring those circumstances.
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