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:



also a fastforward movie showing how the pollution grows:
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Some pictures:






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

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.

[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.