When every day is Christmas in LA

Here’s an interesting little graph:

NEW:

We’re tracking real-time data to get an indication of how and when countries are locking down, and which Asian countries are getting back up and running.

Story: https://t.co/GAB6MTLYxF

Charts:

1) Road traffic levels are plummeting across Europe, though London is lagging pic.twitter.com/0WScFGHfwY

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) March 22, 2020

It will be interesting to see the change in air pollution over the course of the lockdowns.

We went out for a drive the other day in LA just to get out of the house and it was pretty amazing. It’s not as if we can do anything but sit in the car and then come home but it is nice to see cleaner air and emptier freeways. In fact, the air is cleaner than I’ve ever seen it.

When I was a kid, the air was much, much worse here, of course. I can’t even imagine how bad it would be if they hadn’t managed to enact the environmental rules that improved it. But even so, the air is usually hazy with smog and the only days it ever seems really clear are on Christmas Day when the whole city is pretty much shut down.

When it comes to air quality, every day is Christmas now.