Leaving bad air behind...
I don't expect to write in my blog every day, but the weather conditions today reminded me of what I'm leaving behind this winter. Northern Utah has some of the worse air in the nation during our regular inversions . We are on track for a week or two of increasingly bad PM 2.5 readings. The cause? Primarily, it is a combination of vehicle use and dairy farms. The ammonia from livestock mixes with vehicle-produced NOx, resulting in the precipitation of ammonium nitrate and other compounds. " PM 2.5 particulates are fine, inhalable particles or droplets with a diameter of 2.5 microns or smaller. These fine particulates, which are about 30 times smaller than the width of a human hair, can travel deeply into the lungs and cause both short-term and long-term health effects" ( https://deq.utah.gov/Pollutants/P/pm/pm25/ ) . Logan encourages people to avoid idling their vehicles during these inversions, combining trips, not buildi...