Well, it is Monday again. How does THAT happen so quickly?! And we got more snow last night. But at least the air will be clean. We have been in an inversion for over a week now and I think I hate that more than the cold and snow.
The inversion keeps the cold air at the valley floor. The air becomes increasingly dirty and unhealthy, and the cold just gets colder. The mountains and resorts are not affected, as they are at high enough elevations that the inversion doesn't reach them. So it could be 19 degrees on the valley floor and almost 40 at a ski resort. Just doesn't seem right, does it?
I think it is interesting that the inversions happen about the same time as the mid-winter blahs settle in for me. Actually, the inversion probably escalates the blahs, but the idea is the same.
A couple of years ago, our PTA did a Teacher's Drawing on Friday for several weeks (we even called it the "Inversion Diversion"!) during the winter time to give the teachers in our school a little "pick-me-up". They get the blahs too, but then they have to deal with our kids every day! I know the teachers really liked that recognition, even if it was as simple as bright colored post-it notes, or new colored pens for grading papers, or good smelling hand soap for their classrooms.
I know it won't be long into February before I will be aching for Spring to show up. When I get that way, I'll do my best not to whine at you about it. We are in this together, right? Like it or not.....For the duration......How soon is Spring?!
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Amen! That inversion increases my winter blahs. I was thrilled to see rain and snow so we could have clean air--and outside recess :)--again!
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