Yes.
And what I’ve seen in NYC today is not bad like a typical day in 1970.
Every once in a while it will be smoggy here but it’s invariably tied to fog or inversion.
Bakersfield seems worse.
My point here is this is a weather event in NYC that has occurred before, nothing to do with climate change, global warming or the fires per se.
If it were due to the fires other cities would be experiencing similar haze.
Agreed.
Here in SoCal we have the San Gabriel mountain range.
It can effectively block bad smog from being disbursed.
If we get an on shore flow breeze, it blows the smog inland
and it can get trapped by the mountains, making it terrible.
Still, it doesn’t compare to the 70s. And the inversion
layer is a big deal. It can really trap ‘the stuff’ in.