ST. GEORGE — All the rain that’s fallen on Utah in the past couple of days didn’t leave the state smelling fresh and clean — it left it smelling like a wet campfire.
There are a couple of reasons for that, according to the National Weather Service. First, the storm system brought the smoke with it.
And, second, smoke from summer wildfires is different than winter inversion pollution.
“It has a very similar impact in terms of visibility and kind of gross air quality, but they don’t work in the same way,” said David Church, lead meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Salt Lake City office. “This is a different phenomenon.”
The smoke currently plaguing Utah is from fires in California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. “There’s been a very large number of very large wildfires across the West,” he said. “So there’s just an incredible amount of smoke swirling around.”
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Written by SCOTT D. PIERCE, The Salt Lake Tribune.
This article is published through the Utah News Collaborative, a partnership of news organizations in Utah that aims to inform readers across the state.
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