Is SoCal becoming REALLY dusty?

Is SoCal becoming REALLY dusty?

I don't know if it's me, but year by year, I notice that I'm doing more car washes because of the piles of dust that gathers on my car after just a few drives. This year it's just awful; washing my car almost every other week, where it used to be I can drive for a month and it'd still be acceptably clean.

Anyone notice this? Or am I being paranoid?

Everyday when I get out of work, my car has dust on it. sucks..

Ok...well at least it just wasnt me...i was thinkin the same thing. it sucks...but i wash my car every weekend...and if time allows...during the week...thats LA for ya...

Is the smog in the socal area a significant factor?....last time i was in LA (about 8 years ago) I remember lookin at the city from a far and saw a plum of smog over the city around the noon time (i remember the time cuz we went to disney and universal at noon one day and noon the other day....hehe..

Anyways, somewhat off topic, in Oklahoma, the only thing relative to what you guys are experiencing would be the occassional "dirty" thunderstorms that turn everyones car into a reddish orangey brown dirty color cuz of the dirt from Texas and/or West Oklahoma being picked up and dumped on Northeast Oklahoma and Kansas...

Try the East coast, I was my car at least 2 to 3 times a week in the summer, its that bad

which leads me to think though it's not obvoius, the world is turning into a huge dust bowl

Well these dirty thunderstorms dont happen too often, just mainly during like drought periods....

Man, I think its nearly safe to come to the conclusion that humans are screwin up Earth....

we get the same thing here. I wash my car one day and if it rains shes tan, kinda like painting my car with out even paying. of course it looks like a maco paintjob.

ok i think we need a air purifier in our garages

You're absolutely right. My car is black, thus explaining the reason why I wash it every other freakin' day. I fully detailed it yesterday, and by the time I get to work this morning it needs another wash! It's the dirt, dust and mud that accumulates on the sides of the roads after rain and wind. Cars are blastin' by kicking it up on everybody and everything. What's sad is there's not a damn thing we can do about it

Yep. I live near a whole bunch of sites. They are building everywhere in my area (Inland Empire). Where I live you can't keep your car clean if your life depended on it

it is spring time. stuff starts falling off trees and gets on the cars.

seriously, the trees by my place have sex on my car all the time.

I know you get dust clouds with those Santa Ana Winds!

SoCal is right by the desert, so it probably carries...