<p>East coast people here, and we’ve had some bad air days when visiting in the San Bernardino Valley.</p>
<p>What percentage of days, during the academic year, would the air quality problems be enough to affect the average person who goes running outside? Any other advice about how the air quality impacts one’s daily life? Thanks.</p>
<p>are you considering Cal Poly in Pomona? Or Pomona College, which is in Claremont?
<a href=“http://www.homefacts.com/airquality/California/Los-Angeles-County/Pomona.html[/url]”>http://www.homefacts.com/airquality/California/Los-Angeles-County/Pomona.html</a>
<a href=“http://www.homefacts.com/airquality/California/Los-Angeles-County/Claremont.html[/url]”>http://www.homefacts.com/airquality/California/Los-Angeles-County/Claremont.html</a></p>
<p>When did you visit? You actually get used to it, so you don’t notice it. It’s probably smoggy, Idunno, 20 days out of the year. I personally notice it maybe 7 days a year.</p>
<p>“are you considering Cal Poly in Pomona? Or Pomona College, which is in Claremont?”
These two schools are close enough to each other (15 min apart), that I’d say the smog level is the same for both.</p>
<p>Cal Poly Pomona. We must have been there on a really bad day. We found that one member of our group had to get out of the “bowl” – either to the beach, or further inland to the Palm Springs area. </p>
<p>People go running outside and do their normal activities without having to work around the air quality? I mean for average young people, with no particular respiratory ailments. Thanks.</p>
<p>We were actually in Claremont that day, but I, too, had assumed that the Cal Poly Pomona air quality and the and Claremont air quality were probably about the same.</p>
<p>We were there in mid-July, when a student might not be. Is it worse in the middle of summer?</p>
<p>Yes, summer is the worst. Yes, people still do all kinds of sports. I have asthma and have no problems.</p>
<p>I have been there several times during different times of the year and did not find it that bad. Frankly, I find that area beautiful with the mountains near by</p>
<p>I personally also have the immediate desire to drive one hour, straight to the coast after a few hours in Pomona. The smog is very bad in Sept and October, then it starts up again in April, getting worse and worse by September. But I’ve never lived there, so maybe one gets used to it. It’s not something I’d want to get used to. If you are sensitive to it, it could be bad, but if you spend most of your time indoors, it’s probably okay.</p>
<p>It doesn’t bother some people, but as someone who lived in that area, I must say we never ever got used to it. We eventually had to move as I was getting allergies and my child was developing asthma. Both of these cleared up when we left the area. </p>
<p>We recently visited the area looking at colleges for S2 and the air quality was a deal breaker. He couldn’t believe we ever (before he was born) voluntarily subjected ourselves to that mess. </p>
<p>Autopsies done on young non-smokers from that area show lungs that are similar to the lungs of two pack/day smokers.</p>
<p>People learn to exercise in the morning before the smog gets bad in the afternoon.</p>
<p>According to the AQMD, the air quality is high 92.07% of the time. I’ve lived nearby my whole life, and I can’t remember a smog day (where PE is cancelled) in the 20 years I’ve been raising kids here.</p>
<p>The smog was just terrible in the early 1980s, but AQMD and improved car emmisions have really cleaned up the air quite a bit from the early 1980s to early 1990s. In the 80s, it was rare to see the foothills 5-20 miles away Now it is rare to not see the foothills.</p>
<p>really really bad. can’t say it’s much better in Atlanta, though.</p>
<p>I am sensitive to bad air, no atter the cause and find the area oppresive on bad days and a stunning location on good days. I hate having to think about it so I avoid it. The smog makes me feel sick to my stomach.</p>
<p>Thank you all. It seems that people’s reactions vary widely. I guess a person from outside that area, considering the school, would have to mark the air quality as a wild card – something that could end up being a big problem, but if it’s OK on visits, there’s really no way to know if it will become a problem when actually living there.</p>
<p>You would hate to have to transfer over something like that, but school selection always involves some educated guesswork.</p>
<p>I live a little ways west of their (but not quite far enough where I get a sea breeze), and I definitely notice the smog having grown up in an area with very little air pollution. After about a week or so I mostly forget about it (other than on the worst days), but whenever I leave town and come back it always makes me go :(.</p>
<p>The worst is when you drive up into the foothills for a day, then drive back and realize you can taste the difference in the air.</p>
<p>I grew up in Riverside and have family that still lives there. We don’t like to visit in the summer as the air quality is really bad. We are close to the beach here in San Diego and sometimes in the summer you can see the smog to the north over the water (yuck!).</p>