> The weather was the same all week - this had to do with the number of vehicles on the road in a given day. The Santa Ana Winds [0] were blowing very strong

> The weather was the same all week - this had to do with the number of vehicles on the road in a given day. The Santa Ana Winds [0] were blowing very strong right up until Thursday afternoon according to weather reports [1]. But regarding air quality, a lot of the particulate matter in the air in LA is blown in from the desert. Due to the mountainous geography east of LA, there's a corridor leading up from the Gulf of California over the Salton Sea funneling right into LA. The Salton Sea is an ecological disaster created by farm run off that's drying up. As such there's a lot of toxic pollutants in the dry lake bed that are picked up by those winds creating toxic dust clouds that get blown right into LA. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Ana_winds [1] https://www.foxla.com/news/santa-ana-winds-thanksgiving-2022 https://www.foxla.com/news/santa-ana-winds-thanksgiving-2022