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While this certainly isn't the worst inversion season we've had in Boise, it's no less depressing. I haven't seen the sun it seems for weeks, and I'm getting a bit weary of the gloom and gray.
The annoying thing is that if I went to Bogus it'd be bright and sunny.
we have inversions for months on end in Central Calif.
Tule fog.
20 mph on the freeway last week and that was too fast to drive safely.
After 30 years of these I am ready for a few weeks of Soithern Idaho's version.
You guys having some gloom and doom there? We've had a few (freezing) foggy mornings and a time or two lasted up to late afternoon, otherwise sunshine, dry roads and frigid temps over here.
Weeks?? It's only been about a week and a half...looks like a storm is blowing in tomorrow so it should clean things up.
It seems, was what I said.
I'm just especially sensitive to it this year, I suppose. I need a little sunlight to keep me sane, I think, and I haven't been getting my requisite allotment as of late.
This inversion here is nothing compared to SLC, UT...where I have actually turned into oncoming traffic due to not being able to see the road!
I don't remember comparing it to anywhere else - our version is the only version I know, it's all that I'm concerned with. If it's tame to what you're used to, then great for you.
All I know is that for me, my family and my coworkers (we whined about this during lunch today) it's starting to wear thin.
I was just curious if anyone else here felt the same.
The inversion we have had for the past week to week and a half is finally ending Storms are here again!
I too used to live in another city where inversions are much much worse than Boise's so the inversions in Boise are a piece of cake to handle.
Last edited by Syringaloid; 01-22-2009 at 08:47 AM..
Here is a national air quality map, which I think is from a sub-division of the Environmental Protection Agency. Salt Lake City currently has the worst air quality in the nation. I have lived in SLC, and their inversions are far worse than anything I have ever experienced in Boise. Also, I was surprised to see that according to this map, it looks like currently the worst air quality in Idaho is in the Twin Falls and Idaho Falls/Pocatello areas.
I don't remember comparing it to anywhere else - our version is the only version I know, it's all that I'm concerned with. If it's tame to what you're used to, then great for you.
All I know is that for me, my family and my coworkers (we whined about this during lunch today) it's starting to wear thin.
I was just curious if anyone else here felt the same.
I understand your issue. If this is all you've known, then how much worse it is elsewhere doesn't comfort you much. But it IS all relative. I still hear Sandpoint people talk about the horrible traffic, but as a SoCal transplant it wouldn't help them if I told them how bad it really was elsewhere. Maybe others are simply sharing the "it's not too bad compared to other places" to cheer you up a bit...
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Storms are here again!
