Is this haze from heavy oils being burned, like the infamous Heating Oil #6?
- "New Yorkers burn more than 1 billion gallons of heating oil every year which accounts for nearly 14% of fine particulate matter pollutants emitted into our air; more PM2.5 emissions than all cars and trucks in the city combined." - from http://www.nyc.gov/html/dep/html/air/buildings_heating_oil.shtml
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil
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I bet that haze acts like a nice warm blanket to keep the heat from all those oil burning furnaces down in the city!
All clouds have silver linings, even the really hazy smog clouds that are toxic and bad for everything everywhere.
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That's a great photo. Newtown Creek looks inviting. The smog looks just the way smog is supposed to look. The brown tint is from NO and NO2 which is made when cars or furnaces (or anything) burn fuel. Most of the N comes from the air, but fuels which contain lots of nitrogen can produce more NOx. I don't know which fuels have more N.
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@cfastie is right...
Its NO2 - but its being turned into Ozone!
The process is explained here: http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/air/aq4kids/smog.asp
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Cool fact: this is also why air is cleaner at night. No sunlight means no breakdown of NO2 into Ozone!
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Wow, thanks for this info everyone! How's your smog looking lately?
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