Both directions of Interstate 55 northwest of New Orleans are closed after a series of 25 multi-car pileups killed two people in zero visibility, according to the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff.
Wildfires in the drought-stricken state have been burning all summer. The combination of smoke and fog turned deadly.
IIRC while it was originally coined as that portmanteau, it was later “officially” used only for the haze caused by nitrous oxides, ozones and sulfur dioxide from leaded gas/diesel vehicles, coal power, and industrial operations.
Smoke + fog = smog. Why didn’t they just call it that?
I asked myself the exact same question as I read it
IIRC while it was originally coined as that portmanteau, it was later “officially” used only for the haze caused by nitrous oxides, ozones and sulfur dioxide from leaded gas/diesel vehicles, coal power, and industrial operations.
Not an etymologist though.
For clicks.
Smog is fer city slickers!