It’s come to my attention that I have a blog. I was able to remember the domain, and by some miracle, the password.
I yet exist in this town. It’s my 323rd day in Mexico. I’m going to go outside in a minute, I mean, outside the property.
It’s been extremely nice here subsequent to the temperature inversion, which ended Thursday night. The inversion happens for a week or so every November, I have learned. I learned what it was about 24 hours before it ended. In the normal order of things, air closer to the ground, closer to the earth, is warmer. But this town and much of the coast between here and Tijuana experiences an inversion each November wherein a layer of cooler air gets trapped below a layer of warm air. This has the effect of worsening the air quality somewhat dramatically, as it puts a lid over the town and traps whatever pollution the town itself generates. But the inversion unraveled sometime Thursday night, and for the first time in a week the PM2.5 concentration was in a good range when I awoke on Friday. I have a meter. And then Saturday, air quality went from good to great, and then the past few days it has been extremely good. The immediate consequence is visual… the visibility is incredible. Whereas at times last week I couldn’t see the hills just 1/3 mile from here. I mostly stayed indoors during the inversion, where I have a filtration device and air quality is always good.
For the most part I wouldn’t have noticed the poor air quality last week if not for its effect on visibility. And the meter reading. I’m not sure I would have known from the smell/taste/etc. Maybe in some moments.