Okay, so the current global situation is far from ideal, but let’s focus on the silver lining and take a relaxing deep breath of fresh air; something the people of L.A probably haven’t done in a long time.
Most photos of Los Angeles are beautiful but cursed with that notorious Los Angeles smog. However, thanks to everyone abiding by the #StayHome rules, the city is now enjoying its longest stretch of good air quality in at least 40 years.
Social distancing might not just be slowing the spread of coronavirus. It looks like it’s also giving the environment a breather from the pollution of ‘normal’ life.
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L.A isn’t the only destination to be benefiting environmentally. Cities across the globe have reported reductions in air pollution as daily life has come to a halt. Yay to that!
See ya, Smog
According to the March 2020 air quality index compiled by the Environmental Protection Agency, L.A.’s air is reaping massive benefits.
Last month, Los Angeles experienced the longest stretch of days of “good” air since at least 1980.
The federal agency’s online data goes back no further, but experts suspect that L.A.’s air hasn’t been this clean since around the time the United States entered the Second World War.
Cody Hill, an energy company executive based in the Bay Area, posted a graphic of the EPA data to his Twitter account and wrote that, in terms of air quality, March may well have been “one of the best months at least since the 1940s, when there was huge migration as we ramped up aircraft production in the L.A. basin to fight WW2.”
The lack of travel emissions is the main reason for the improved air quality in the city. The traffic fumes usually get pumped into the atmosphere during the infamous morning and evening rush hours, pre-Covid-19 days.
Now the people of LA are staying safe in their homes and hardly travelling at all; there’s way less pollution and more fresh air. And Los Angelenos can notice the difference simply by looking out their window.
Goodbye brown smog, hello blue skies.
If you’re in L.A, open the window, close your eyes and take a deep breath of that sweet, sweet air.
We wonder what the air quality results for April will show…