Smog City - Tablet Magazine

Smog City - Tablet Magazine Summer in LA: wildfires, earthquakes, prickling unease, and memories from only a couple of years ago of the National Guard driving down Robertson Boulevard. Still, none of these things bums Angelenos out like June Gloom. June Gloom is the annual local weather phenomenon during which the sky gets gray, the temperature drops, and seasonal depression rates climb. Giving the ambient murk a cutesy name (along with May Gray before it) is supposed to make it more palatable, but it doesn’t. All the spicy margaritas and superblooms in the world can’t quite make it alright. June Gloom, while calendar-reliable, is somehow annually surprising, maybe because it’s hard for the human brain to process that, after a spring full of bougainvillea, cactus flowers, and ripe loquats, the signs of impending summer are falling temperatures and skies filled with what looks like dirty cotton candy.