Imaginavigator7 t1_j8x3uvt wrote on February 17, 2023 at 4:02 PM

Reply to comment by EggsAndBeerKegs in Northern NH - Anyone else smell that this morning? by Danadroid

It has to do with the mountains! Poor air quality is pretty common over there and sometimes bad air gets trapped. I think it's called inversion or something like that.

Curious_Buffalo_1206 t1_j8x4vc6 wrote on February 17, 2023 at 4:08 PM

Yeah, all the car exhaust and wood stove smoke gets trapped by the inversion and chokes everyone out. It blows. It’s why SLC has some of the worst air quality in the country. The lake is forecast to be gone in less than five years because the morons keep growing alfalfa for export in the desert, and when that happens, it’ll be the worst in the world. It’s another Aral Sea disaster happening in real time before our eyes, but capitalism will get the new record time.

victoriaa- t1_j8ya5q4 wrote on February 17, 2023 at 8:32 PM

The receding lake is its own environmental disaster, both the toxins are being concentrated as water evaporates as well as the dust plumes

PissTapeExpert t1_j8xzsqc wrote on February 17, 2023 at 7:25 PM

Same shit happened to me when we moved to the mountains in Arizona. I thought it would be like my home state of Oregon lots of trees clean air, but the traffic from Phoenicians coming to see snow and our woodstoves made the air quality worse than Phoenix.

victoriaa- t1_j8ya2dq wrote on February 17, 2023 at 8:31 PM

I get inversions where I live and the air quality still isn’t that bad. It looks like it starts at salt lake, I wonder if this is from the receding shore line and the toxic dust