UPDATE: THE AQMD ISSUED A SECOND ADVISORY SHORTLY AFTER 6:30 P.M. MONDAY. CLICK HERE TO READ.
Sulfur-like odors are being reported across Southwest Riverside County and the Inland Empire Monday morning.
Reports stretching from Rosetta Canyon in Lake Elsinore to the French Valley are coming in from readers.
The odor has also been reported in the Coachella Valley, where last week the South Coast Air Quality Management District said it had deployed field inspectors in response to complaints from residents. Although a strong scent from the Salton Sea is commonly experienced in the fall and winter months, the Air Quality Management District has not yet publicly confirmed the smell is coming from that area. Today the AQMD is closed, but shortly after noon the agency released an advisory on the issue. to read what was said.
The Salton Sea’s odor this time of year can be caused by high salinity in the water, high evaporation rate, lack of sea outlet, inflow of untreated water from Mexico through the New River and algae decomposition after a “planktonic boom.”
More information about foul odors from the Salton Sea can be found at www.aqmd.gov/complain/saltonseaodor.
I'm really getting creeped out!!!
The presumption that it was the Salton Sea seemed off at first, but now reading about the high winds(which are notorious from there to here)I guess it is possible its blowing that smell and filling the air so much with that crud. Key words, ***I guess***, cause that still seems awful farfetched, but I believe in our hometown Jim Purpura - weathercurrents.com :)
I know the Whittier one in '87 (even thought had been through all of them since I was born)was the most unsettling experience EVER with an earthquake. Thank god I was the only one at home so only had to worry about me getting out. But it woke me and I seriously thought "biggest damn monster under my house I have ever seen on TV", then as I hit the floor, literally, trying to get to the front of the house, seeing out of the corner of my eye all of the glasses, booze, decorations falling out of shelves, off shelves, off walls, china cabinet, past kitchen to see the stuff literally flying out of the cubbards, not rolling out like other quakes, but flying! then to get to the front door and find it cranked up and I could not get it open. AS other windows are breaking, fireplace is falling down. There "Was" two sets of french doors on each side of the front door however and I tried one, cranked up, the other had popped out of the lock and opened right up. Out I went. There was about 3 houses in our block that had people stuck inside and the men immediately went to shutting off gases, elect. water, and getting those people out, checking for more. I grew up there, we all knew each other, and everyone just kind of knew what needed to be done. We had to as phone service immediately was cut, every EQ. 6.0 ok, 7.0 Good god.
With the rains, we're probably getting more of the algae enriching runoff into the lake too, which causes the algae to grow like mad, some years turning the lake pea soup green.
They bumped your post that fast.
They are sad sights and you know when your pontoon boat is always hitting ground that is some shallow stuff right? And NO its not just cause I am on IT! Or ya drop that fishing line and it goes out 10 ft :/ and all ya catch are mud suckers.