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Kate
Shelters for the unhoused have been billed thousands for calling in false alarms to the fire department, a practice which is coming to an end – the billing, that is.
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Kate
As noted in comments below, and because we’re not getting much other news on a Sunday between holidays, it’s a foggy Sunday morning.
Joey
Environment Canada now saying it’s smog…
Blork
It was foggy like that in the very early hours of Thursday and Friday morning. Like pea-soup fog at 4:00AM. (At least that’s how it was chez moi.)
Kate
Joey, the Environment Canada weather page has both a smog warning and a fog advisory up, at just past noon.
…It’s unusual for a fog/smog to last this long into the day. I’ve just been wandering around a very wet Jarry Park, enjoying the foggy soggy atmosphere, but the rain began to pick up towards 3, so I came home.
Ian
by definition in the city can’t any fog be considered smog? The same atmospheric conditions that trap fog trap everything in the air, no?
I was under the impression that it used to be that smog was more of an issue to report when there was no fog, since what you were seeing was not in fact fog, but JUST pollutants.
It feels like about a decade ago every time we got fog there was an alarmist report in the weather of a smog warning. and that new approach never stopped. Did the definition change or was it just that people weren’t realizing that there was fog and smog at the same time? Or is there some other reason?
TBH I think there is value in reporting smog and fog as separate phenomena as smog is an air quality issue and fog is a visiblity issue, but what do I know.
DeWolf
You can have smog without fog and fog without smog, so they’re two completely different phenomena. Sometimes you end up with both like yesterday and today.
I was in Beijing in 2015 when it still had very bad air quality issues (apparently things have massively improved) and a new weather front moved in, bringing a huge cloud of pollution with it. The haze was so thick you couldn’t see to the end of the street – but it was bone-dry out with virtually no humidity. Definitely not fog.
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