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That, in turn, keeps any smoke, pollutants, or dust from getting away, leading to our infamous &quot;Brown Cloud.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Denver air quality has substantially improved since the 70s\/80s, but it&#39;s something that takes constant vigilance.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-4uMVnvsELGw\/UTdSlGP32sI\/AAAAAAAAU8g\/vLw0mLwxe-s\/s0-d\/2013-03-06_06-56-03_966.jpg' border='0' \/><\/a><span><\/span><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/dvZURj9JP43' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, one of the winter problems we have here in Denver &#8212; a thermal inversion where colder air is keeping slightly warmer air down at the surface. That, in turn, keeps any smoke, pollutants, or dust from getting away, leading to our infamous &quot;Brown Cloud.&quot; Denver air quality has substantially improved since the 70s\/80s, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/thermal-inversion.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thermal inversion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7939,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/18\/huzzah_for_air.html","url_meta":{"origin":32815,"position":0},"title":"Huzzah for Air Conditioning!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Jul-05 8:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't care if it's bad for the environment, or runs up fuel bills, or adds to our energy consumption and greenhouse gasses and bad karma. 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