Day 1. After the rain (notice the mountains in the distance)
Day 2 (mountains are still there, close-up)
Day 3 (I think I see the mountains)
Day 4... back to normal. (There are mountains back there???)
After the rain... clear skies... temporarily
Santiago is pretty well known for having poor air quality. The city is surrounded by hills and mountains, making it difficult for contamination to escape, especially in the winter when thermal inversion occurs and traps the smog closer to the ground. I have heard several times that it is so bad a Japanese scientist proposed blowing away the mountain to create "holes in the hills." Personally, I love rain in Santiago because instead of the phrase, "After the rain, the rainbow," it is more like, "After the rain, clear skies... no smog... clean air... beautiful scenery... nice days to jog outside... etc." Except there may be flash flooding because there is so much concrete and little drainage, but that's a different story.
