I feel stupid asking this. But cities and countries who have smog and a major amount of air pollution. Why doesn't the wind blow it away or move it overtime? Is there that much pollution?

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 3 days ago

I feel stupid asking this. But cities and countries who have smog and a major amount of air pollution. Why doesn't the wind blow it away or move it overtime? Is there that much pollution?

Sergio@slrpnk.net · 3 days ago

Anecdote: I was living in coastal LA for a while, and yes the breeze from the ocean would usually push the air pollution away from us inland. But every once in a while there were those Santa Ana winds that would blow the air pollution from all of inland LA right through us and the outdoors would smell kinda bad. And then there were days without wind and the air was just kind of meh.