Utah endured several hours of nasty air on Wednesday morning as a wind storm all but clogged the state’s dust-detecting air monitors.
One state Division of Air Quality sensor pollution located in Herriman reported 900 micrograms of particulate matter on Wednesday — the highest reading the device is capable of detecting, according to Bo Call, who oversees state air-quality monitoring.
But unlike frigid and stagnant weather conditions in recent weeks that create inversions and trap air pollution over Utah’s population centers, this pattern is new, although it can look just as soupy and gray. This dust storm, in fact, could signal inversion-free skies through year’s end and possibly beyond.