It’s not often that things go better than expected but that has been the case with the later portion of this year’s winter ozone season. USU Bingham Research Center Director Dr. Seth Lyman shared on Monday that the potential for winter ozone each day this week is low. “I think the snow cover through the Uinta Basin is spotty enough that inversion conditions that lead to high ozone are now unlikely,” shares Dr. Lyman, who says he’s not ready to declare the winter ozone season over until the snow cover decreases but that it is close. Speaking with Evans Family Media last week, Dr. Lyman emphasized that the decrease in high ozone days later into the season has fully surprised the researchers who expected the opposite to happen. Of course, they have some ideas as to why but aren’t at all upset that they were wrong in this regard.
