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Smoke and haze team up so the sky can ruin your lungs and your sunset.
means A thick, dirty-grey atmospheric soup formed when smoke pollution mixes with natural haze, cutting visibility and air quality alike.
from A 20th-century blend word — smoke plus haze — coined as cities needed a quick label for industrial-age skies that were neither one nor the other but a grim mashup of both. It belongs to the same word-family as smog (smoke + fog), part of a little wave of pollution portmanteaus born as urban air got bad enough to need new vocabulary.
- origin
- blend of smoke and haze
- cousin term
- smog is the humidity version
- visibility
- can cut sightlines to under a mile
- source
- wildfires plus stagnant dry air