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For at least the past several years, the central valley of California, the San Joaquin Valley, has experienced every late fall/winter what I can only describe as extraordinary fog that's comprised of water vapor but huge amounts of pollutants like exhaust, particulate from manufacturing and burning, etc.... Combined with the colder temperatures, it makes for an amazing (and likely amazingly deadly, over time) layer of haze that gets held down and cannot rise, getting worse the further south one goes. I have some shots of sunsets from Moro Rock that show this in even more extreme terms.
This was taken returning home from Thanksgiving from the Merced area, just goofing off driving down little known highways and side roads. The SJV is a place of great barren subtlety and even variety if you look hard enough, but living there would be, to say the least, atmospherically challenging.
Power Plant in Valley Haze, Huron, CA, Redo by tanngrisnir3, on Flickr
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