Inversion

 It's definitely a curl up on the sofa with a cup of hot coffee kind of day here. Outside of my window a thick, white fog sits over the expansive horizon as far as I can see. At first it looks very wintery and festive, until you have to go out in it. Then it's just nasty, thick SMOG. I can actually taste the air, which is never a good thing. Gross.

One of the awful things about winter in Utah is the bi-seasonal inversions we get here - summer and winter. We basically live in a bowl here between mountain ranges, along with about 1 million other people, who all drive lots of cars and with no airflow to clear out the exhaust the smog builds up and doesn't have anywhere to go. So, this puts a damper on any and all outside activities (not that I had many to begin with), but being pregnant and having young children with preemie lungs puts us in the high risk category for being affected by the nasty air. The inversion makes the temps drop outside too, so along with thick air, it's colder than it would be normally. Chickens are hanging out close to the barn. Dogs are snoozing. I don't think anything phases them, well, besides gale force winds. Even they don't care for that kind of weather. :)