• neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Where I live there is a holiday where basically the city empties. It’s kind of eerie how empty it gets.

    Just after 2-3 days, there is 0 smog when you look towards distant parts of the city. It’s strange how clearly you can see all of the buildings.

    Cars really dirty up the air.

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      This sounds very interesting. Do you have more info? If you’re comfortable sharing since I guess you’d be doxxing your hometown lol

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        No idea where they live but here in Brussels there is public data available so it’s relatively easy to keep track of different kind of particles in the air. I imagine there is a proxy for how busy a city is on a specific day that would help make a correlation with some assumptions. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ must have something on both.

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            I’d be curious to know which places are not like that. Aren’t most cities emptying up for holidays?