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Is it not normally like this? Need a comparison to a typical day
It's looked like this pretty much every day since the clean air acts of the late 80s.
This picture specifically is the morning after a rainstorm. That always cleans it up a bit more.
LA is not anywhere near as bad as the movies make it out to be. It was that had, though, before emissions regulations.
There were blue skies in L.A. before the pandemic and after. Not everyday, but they existed.
I assumed LA was always deeply yellow tinted, like it is in all media set in the city.
That's Mexico