The inversion has lifted!!!

[Moki]

The temperature inversion has finally lifted!!!! I can finally see the sun and the mountains again !!!

[zad0030]

And were freezing our balls off here in St Louis.

[sparky216]

I had to google Temprature Inversion, didn't know what it was:

A temperature inversion is a thin layer of the atmosphere where the decrease in temperature with height is much less than normal (or in extreme cases, the temperature increases with height). An inversion, also called a "stable" air layer, acts like a lid, keeping normal convective overturning of the atmosphere from penetrating through the inversion. This can cause several weather-related effects. One is the trapping of pollutants below the inversion, allowing them to build up. If the sky is very hazy, or is sunsets are very red, there is likely an inversion somewhere in the lower atmosphere. This happens more frequently in high pressure zones, where the gradual sinking of air in the high pressure dome typically causes an inversion to form at the base of a sinking layer of air. Another effect is making clouds spread out and take on a flattened appearance. Still another effect is to prevent thunderstorms from forming. Even in an air mass that is hot and humid in the lowest layers, thunderstorms will be prevented if an inversion is keeping this air from rising. The opposite of a temperature inversion is an unstable air layer

[Razzman]

I had to google Temprature Inversion, didn't know what it was

Move to LA, you'll find out real fast what it is! I grew in SoCal and can remember in the 70's the inversion got so bad the sky was orange! The summers were brutal as well cuse the heat just built up underneath! Lucky for me i lived in Newport Beach so i rarely had to experience it.

[chpthril]

It's supposed to snow about dawn here, God I hope so

[Tequilasun]

Wow, I guess you can fart again.

You won't be trapped in the Dutch oven anymore....

[Moki]

I had to google Temprature Inversion, didn't know what it was:

A temperature inversion is a thin layer of the atmosphere where the decrease in temperature with height is much less than normal ....

What make it bad is that our valley is surrounded by mountains, so it acts like a bowl when a high pressure moves over and locks the cold air in. It's the best time to go skiing. The ski resorts will be in the sun with higher temperatures and the valleys will be cold and foggy.

[Coach]

I had to google Temprature Inversion, didn't know what it was:

A temperature inversion is a thin layer of the atmosphere where the decrease in temperature with height is much less than normal (or in extreme cases, the temperature increases with height). An inversion, also called a "stable" air layer, acts like a lid, keeping normal convective overturning of the atmosphere from penetrating through the inversion. This can cause several weather-related effects. One is the trapping of pollutants below the inversion, allowing them to build up. If the sky is very hazy, or is sunsets are very red, there is likely an inversion somewhere in the lower atmosphere. This happens more frequently in high pressure zones, where the gradual sinking of air in the high pressure dome typically causes an inversion to form at the base of a sinking layer of air. Another effect is making clouds spread out and take on a flattened appearance. Still another effect is to prevent thunderstorms from forming. Even in an air mass that is hot and humid in the lowest layers, thunderstorms will be prevented if an inversion is keeping this air from rising. The opposite of a temperature inversion is an unstable air layer

Sound like the stuff I teach in Earth Science. We get all kinds of inversion layers here in So Cal. The San Garbiel Mountains create a huge wall with the inversion and the smog will build up. The air quality is great now compaired to the 60's and 70's. I can't even rember a smog alert in the OC for 15 years or more. I just remeber having to play against Azusa Pacific in college at 1 in the afternoon in September in the late 80's. Must of been about 90 and the smog was bad, all of the out of state kids were choking and their eyes were burning. Of course the good guys were alll, we laughed at them and called them names.

[Moki]

Sound like the stuff I teach in Earth Science. We get all kinds of inversion layers here in So Cal. The San Garbiel Mountains create a huge wall with the inversion and the smog will build up. The air quality is great now compaired to the 60's and 70's. I can't even rember a smog alert in the OC for 15 years or more. I just remeber having to play against Azusa Pacific in college at 1 in the afternoon in September in the late 80's. Must of been about 90 and the smog was bad, all of the out of state kids were choking and their eyes were burning. Of course the good guys were alll, we laughed at them and called them names.

Our air has been bad for the last few weeks. There was a story on the news that the air has been so bad that dogs were getting sick and people were encouraged to not take their dogs on long walks

[xpjim1]

Hey I live where Coach is speaking of. On bad days we are less than 2 miles from the mountains and cannot see them. We owned the distinction of smogiest city southern CA. It has gotten better though. That is why i spend so much time in Havasu

[lba_dillon]

I've never been to California so unfortunately I don't really know exactly what you guys are talking about. It's hard for me to imagine the air/sky being that bad!!!!! Of course you always hear about it on the news and all that crap............. Hmmmmmmm guess that's the price I pay for being a smalltown guy!!

[Domsz06]

i couldn't see the grapevine when I was driving to LAX last week and I was under a mile away. And it was not even a "Bad" day. The air in Kern County is just freaking terrible!

[lba_dillon]

i couldn't see the grapevine when I was driving to LAX last week and I was under a mile away. And it was not even a "Bad" day. The air in Kern County is just freaking terrible!

wow, I seriously couldn't imagine that!!!! Now this is an example of a VERY bad day right??????? It's not normally near that bad is it????? SMOG now has a new meaning after reading these posts!

[Moki]

Here is what they look like in Utah when you are in the mountains looking down.

[Domsz06]

wow, I seriously couldn't imagine that!!!! Now this is an example of a VERY bad day right??????? It's not normally near that bad is it????? SMOG now has a new meaning after reading these posts!

No that was an example of a Moderate day, where wood burning is discouraged but still allowed. I have not seen a bad day yet, the one we had while I was here I was out of state. So that being said I dont' know what a bad day would be.