Temperature inversions occur when a layer of warmer air aloft overlies cooler air at the surface, inhibiting vertical mixing and trapping pollutants within the atmospheric boundary layer. Such ...

ROCKTON (WREX) — Smoke from the smoldering Chemtool fire in Rockton may stay closer to the ground over the next few nights thanks to temperature inversions setting up. While inversions usually lead to ...

Let’s start with a very basic piece of scientific information: Warm air rises. This happens largely because warm air is less dense than the cooler air that surrounds it. This process also occurs when ...