London Fog

London Fog

The “London Fog” was yellow smog so thick you couldn't see the ground. These "pea soupers" often carried toxic chemicals and one in 1952 killed 4,000 people in 5 days. Due to the Clean Air Act, the last London Fog was in 1962.

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