What’s with Utah’s wet campfire smell? Rainstorms brought West Coast smoke with them.

And wildfire smoke doesn’t act the same way as winter inversions.

(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Wind blows the smoke away for a moment, revealing the damage from the Parleys Canyon Fire burns on Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. Most of the smoke plaguing Utah this week is from fires on the West Coast.

What’s with Utah’s wet campfire smell? Rainstorms brought West Coast smoke with them.

And wildfire smoke doesn’t act the same way as winter inversions.

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