Yes, and no. It’s bad, but it generally happens during winter in Norway with so many people firing their woodstoves and using spiked tires.
Additionally the cold weather near the ground may cause inversions which keeps the cold, polluted air nearer to the ground.
Lillehammer is in a valley. During winter you can sometimes get a weather phenomenon called temperature inversion where the air is colder at the ground than higher up. Under such conditions the exhaust from cars of the smoke from chimneys has nowhere to go but collect near the ground, and there is no wind to take it away. If this lasts for many days the air quality can get very bad.
This is a problem in mountainous regions all over the world.
It can happen for a short period during winter if a mix of different circumstances are happening at the same time.
– A lot of people uses their woodstoves at the same
– A lot of people are driving with studded tires at the same time
– low cold wind keeps the polluted air towards the ground.
– You live in a city/town/village surrounded by mountains. Lillehammer is in a valley.
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Traffic ruins air quality.
Yes, and no. It’s bad, but it generally happens during winter in Norway with so many people firing their woodstoves and using spiked tires.
Additionally the cold weather near the ground may cause inversions which keeps the cold, polluted air nearer to the ground.
Lillehammer is in a valley. During winter you can sometimes get a weather phenomenon called temperature inversion where the air is colder at the ground than higher up. Under such conditions the exhaust from cars of the smoke from chimneys has nowhere to go but collect near the ground, and there is no wind to take it away. If this lasts for many days the air quality can get very bad.
This is a problem in mountainous regions all over the world.
It can happen for a short period during winter if a mix of different circumstances are happening at the same time.
– A lot of people uses their woodstoves at the same
– A lot of people are driving with studded tires at the same time
– low cold wind keeps the polluted air towards the ground.
– You live in a city/town/village surrounded by mountains. Lillehammer is in a valley.
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