How polluted is your City/Village during winter?

[evon]

My city can get very polluted due to the 7 mountains that surround the main transit points, but this issue is only prevalent during special winter conditions:

- Clear skies.
- Minus degrees.
- No wind.

The issue is also seen in other cities around the world with mountains nearby acting as walls preventing wind from carrying the pollution away.

These days its quite polluted so the local news paper has started a campaign to get the pollution down, here is a short video of it with some pictures from my city:

http://vimeo.com/57155885

also a fastforward movie showing how the pollution grows:
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Some pictures:
http://www.juristforeningen.com/images/stories/lillebo_jpg_622505c.jpg

http://gfx.nrk.no/1bAs_wyXMxHw9fSd523inAabLzhXTWYOJ3cBybQj0Sqw.jpg

http://media2.origo.no/-/cache/image/1260342_hc3b6a96a0847d884d520_v1264840221_562x450. jpeg

The weird thing is that if you move above the pollution you barely notice it and during the other 3 seasons we hardly have any pollution...

[Rastko]

Pollution is non-existent.

No factories.

[kabeiros]

I live in a coastal village far away from large cities and factories, so it's not polluted at all, I guess I'm lucky. The sea is crystal clear and the mountains full of vegetation, it is a beautiful place to live in and I'm going to be really sad if I ever have to leave in order to find a job...

[Damião de Góis]

You have pollution problems with all the rain Bergen gets? Rain should reduce the effect of pollution.

[evon]

Pollution is non-existent.

No factories.

We also dont have factories in my city, its mostly a mixture between wood burning and Car/boat pollution..


You have pollution problems with all the rain Bergen gets? Rain should reduce the effect of pollution.

It dosnt rain in minus 10c :P

Most Northern cities get polluted during winter, some more then others though due to variations in geography ect..

[Lemon Kush]

Very polluted. Lots of smog. http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/environment-book/Images/LA-smog-2.jpg

http://www.engin.umich.edu/~cre/web_mod/la_basin/smog.jpg

http://addins.waow.com/blogs/weather/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/LA-SMOG.jpg

[evon]

Very polluted. Lots of smog.

Its LA? I hear its very polluted all year around..

[Virtuous]

Not much, you can see a tiny bit pollution during the peak times when people are going to work in the morning for example.

During Winter Malta is cloudy, humid and rainy most of the time, sometimes thunderstorms and hail. After rainy days the sky always comes back to be crystal clear-blue and all colours are vivid, the sun nice and warm over the humid-cold.

[Lemon Kush]

Its LA? I hear its very polluted all year around..

Yep.

[Graham]

It isn't something I've ever noticed in my town. When younger going into Edinburgh, it triggered the asthma a little, wasn't adapted. Not now, it isn't noticeable.

The only notable air pollution I have seen, is from the oil refineries 20 miles away.

[Graham]

This is where my gran used to live before all this. That is me. 20 miles away from my home, the oil refinery.


My grannies family got chucked off that land actually. :P

http://co-photo.com/concepts/environment/m/img_157_m.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/6863410643_3ecb63391d_b.jpg

[Smaug]

Very polluted, full of smog. We also have problems with inversion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_(meteorology)

Inversion in São Paulo:

http://csm7anod.pbworks.com/f/1291672366/ibagem.jpg

[kabeiros]

Sounds similar to what my uncle's family faced, when this electricity producing factories expanded their coal mines and kicked them out of their village. This people were Anatolian Greek refugees who were forced to ''migrate'' again, just 50 years after they had left their original homeland in Anatolia. My uncle's father used to make jokes about it, he was an optimistic man

http://www.rwf.gr/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/ptolemaida.jpg
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[Caismeachd]

The most polluted place I've been has been Los Angeles, CA. Just spending a day there I felt sick even in the hotel room. San Francisco, CA is a very clean city in comparison because it's right next to the bay. The bay takes all the pollution away. I've never really lived anywhere too polluted before.

[MarkyMark]

My area is pretty polluted, there are a number of half breeds here.

[evon]

Very polluted, full of smog. We also have problems with inversion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_(meteorology)


Inversion is cool to look at when its fog, not so cool when its polluted smog..

[evon]

I found an app for checking the air pollution in my city for my phone the other day, must say it has been handy.. no Walking in the polluted part of town today:

http://bt.mnocdn.no/incoming/article2831474.ece/ALTERNATES/w580c169/lokk.jpg?updated=220120131350

[Corvus]

Not very polluted as I live in a village, the next industrial town is 30 km away

[Smaug]

Inversion is cool to look at when its fog, not so cool when its polluted smog..

Agreed, but in São Paulo city it is usually polluted smog, but you get clean and good fog in the countryside though.

[Lemon Kush]

The most polluted place I've been has been Los Angeles, CA. Just spending a day there I felt sick even in the hotel room. San Francisco, CA is a very clean city in comparison because it's right next to the bay. The bay takes all the pollution away. I've never really lived anywhere too polluted before.

Even some 3rd world countries are less polluted than Los Angeles lol. The smog is ridiculous.

[Allenson]

No cities here. Not much pollution. Taken just the other day from my house:

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8507/8359517084_8f3666cf60_z.jpg

We do get inversions here sometimes on cold winter mornings but where I live, we're back up in the hills enough to usually be above it.

I've seen nasty inversions out in the American west (Salt Lake City, Denver, etc.).

[evon]

Your view is nice:) I deleted your duplicate..

[Absinthe]

In Attica we have a brand new and very dangerous type of pollution:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_XPPe03SFXM/UNyP9Bbm2fI/AAAAAAAAQPY/TffrTpIB-6I/s560/athens-aithalomixli.jpg

This is smog from domestic fireplaces, stoves and other kinds of fire-powered heaters. You see, due to the crisis and the price of oil and natural gas being ridiculously high, most people result into more primitive solutions. The ones who've had a decorative fireplace lit once or twice per year now burn anything they can find to heat themselves up. So do people in old-style stoves, they might burn, for example, old furniture, which is coated with varnish and paint and all that stuff goes up into the air in the form of minute, breathable particles.

The health/environmental hazard is of course imminent, this is all practically illegal, but go tell 6 million people packed in a city with grave humidity that they should rather freeze or suffer from arthritis when they have no other means to heat themselves than release this deadly gas into the air.

[LostSoul]

Silesia is terribly polluted by smog... It's terribly disgusting. I guess old people in my country are not too rich. Well, I don't want to talk about politics, but the COVID situation makes it worse. My God...
It depends sometimes, but I think it's mostly polluted...