SMOG

As much as I’d like to think we’re going to convince Doug to move here soon, job or not, the current weather is probably not going to help. We have a terrible inversion (where the cold air and pollution gets stuck under a warm layer between the two mountain ranges east and west), and it’s like pea soup. You can’t see the mountains from our house (which is unusual). Here’s someone else’s photo – it’s actually worse than this today.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/provincijalka/3201619501/

This is taken from a little higher than my office ‘on the hill’, and I can’t even see downtown today! It’s not supposed to clear up until at least Sunday. Great.

At least we have a gas fireplace - if you have a wood-burning fireplace, you can't make a fire when it's a 'red' day like today. :(