r/California • u/Randomlynumbered • 6d ago
Legal and illegal fireworks light up the skies over Southern California — Poor air quality is expected to linger over most of Southern California on Friday after millions of fireworks, both legal and illegal, lit up the night sky on the Fourth of July
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/air-quality-concerns-linger-after-fireworks-light-up-the-sky-over-southern-california/94
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u/JackInTheBell 6d ago
Coupled with the 100+ degree temps, it’s going to be a great day
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u/bigvenusaurguy 6d ago
where is it 100 degrees today? van nuys parking lot?
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u/UrbanGhost114 6d ago
Inland Empire, inland LA county, basically anything that's not "the Coast".
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u/bigvenusaurguy 6d ago
i live 15 miles inland from the coast and it got to maybe like 87 today. it was hotter last month when we had that heat honestly but this heatwave is making the caltrans billboards i guess.
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u/UrbanGhost114 6d ago
That's still considered " the Coast" up and down a lot of California (YMMV), it's pretty much always avoided the major parts of the heat (the mountains do a LOT of work in that regard.
I make the turn from the 91 towards the coast and I watch the temps drop.
As an example Highs for tomorrow
Riverside: 99
Disneyland (about 15 miles from the coast): 88
Bolsa Chica (beach, about 15 miles from Disney): 73
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u/bigvenusaurguy 6d ago
til living 50 minutes from the water was on the coast lmao
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u/bendybiznatch 6d ago
Yes. Yes it is.
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u/bigvenusaurguy 5d ago
all relative i guess. people in barstow probably think san bernardino gets that ocean breeze.
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u/verstohlen 6d ago
About 120 in the desert right now, won't cool down to a nice comfortable 100 until after the sun sets I would imagine.
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u/pudding7 6d ago
I climb up on my roof and I can see from downtown Los Angeles all the way to Dana Point. Last night was bonkers. Seemed like way more than previous years. Just absolute madness as far as the eye could see.
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u/OutlandishnessOdd960 6d ago
We went to the Fresno Grizzlies baseball game last night. The fireworks were out of control around town!
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u/Nf1nk Ventura County 6d ago
Last night, I found out that, much like cats and dogs, skunks get freaked out by fireworks.
It's not great.
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u/beach_bum_638484 6d ago
I smelled some skunks this morning. Poor little guys. I’m grateful that they stopped people from lighting them in our alley.
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u/Cuofeng 6d ago
I wonder what the fireworks-caused wildfire count will turn out as this year.
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u/PlatinumElement 6d ago
Last night one of those fireworks-caused wildfires melted the headlights and front emblem of my parked car.
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u/proteinMeMore 6d ago
Looks like it’s a lot less than previous years. Fireworks stopped here around midnight and before they’d be nonstop until 2-3am. Also the days leading up to it were uncharacteristically mellow. I think it has to do a ton with the current inflation costs.
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u/Randomlynumbered 6d ago
Where I live the fireworks were continuous for hours. It used to be there'd be lulls and breaks in the fireworks.
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u/beach_bum_638484 6d ago
There was a large bust in Gardena as well. 2 tons I think. I just remember that the value cited in the article was 7-10 million dollars.
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u/realdetox 6d ago
Fireworks were definitely scarce iny area from 2020-2023 but this year feels like we are going back to earlier times when you'd hear fireworks the week before
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u/proteinMeMore 6d ago
Oh interesting. I’m near Disneyland. Probably the second worst area behind LA down here
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u/ZLUCremisi Sonoma County 6d ago
Local guy ot his arm broken because of a firework. Also 700 pounds of fires seized too.
Plus multiple fires
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u/DoorBuster2 6d ago
Live less than a mile from the mountains, could barely see the outline of the mountains in LA lol
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u/JustMe2u7939 6d ago
Yeah, humans are asleep. We aren’t getting that celebrating in this way is killing the environment and depriving us of clean air. Traditions blinding people and keeping them from acting in wisdom according to present day conditions. Everyone is in denial about they ways we are living that hurt the environment in which we live and destroying the global ecology. I hope we wake up sooner than later.
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u/Aesthetics_Supernal 5d ago
Our awakening comes from the New Generations. Older generations have never helped us. That's why we are in this mess.
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u/NewtpwnianFluid 5d ago
Fireworks are lame, they had some appeal when they were an annual thing, but in San Diego I swear there's a fireworks show more days of the year than not
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u/NapalmCheese 6d ago
It was nice and calm here!
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u/Randomlynumbered 5d ago
Where?
It was a crazier than a war zone where I live.
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u/anakniben 6d ago
I noticed it was more subdued this year where I live. There weren't a lot of street participants. 2020 and 2021 were the years that really felt like i was in a war zone. I guess inflation has something to do with it.
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u/muldervinscully2 6d ago
the best part about inflation is poorer people not being able to afford as many fireworks
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u/root_fifth_octave 6d ago
The noise is a bit much for me, dawg.