The stagnant air sitting across Salt Lake County last weekend seemed to grow unusually dense to the untrained eye, even for an inversion. Yet, according to a meteorologist who works in the National ...
Salt Lake Valley residents can make a mountain disappear. It’s not a magic trick — it’s called inversion. Inversion is a weather phenomenon where warmer air at higher altitudes traps colder air — and ...
A wintertime inversion or "cold-air pool" traps air pollution over the Salt Lake Valley, almost completely obscuring downtown Salt Lake City in the center of the photo. The University of Utah campus ...