The Air Quality in the Salt Lake Valley
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This Jan. 12, 2010 file photo shows smog and haze hovering over Salt Lake City. The thick layer of smog stubbornly lingering over Utah has fouled the state's mountain air so badly this week that health officials are warning people not to exercise outside and schools are keeping children inside for recess and sports. The smog is blamed on a weather phenomenon that pins pollution to the valley floors.
(AP Photo/ Deseret News, Brian Nicholson, File)
The facts above are from the Associated Press
Believe it or not Salt Lake will not have near this problem when the spring and summer come again, but when it is cold out we end up with the worst air in all of the USA. The same mountains I love so much all summer long are what hold us in a Bowl for the winter as the valley floor get frozen and warm air covers us the mountains keep us cold and covered in smog.
Down here the wind hardly blows when this happens and there is no way to stir up the soup mix we call air, But I have always wondered if we was all to go out with a household fans and aim the to the north, turn them on high and get the air to move if it would not be like a butterfly effect and blow the air enough to help us…
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