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Here's how boundless the bad aroma was Monday: When Aubrey Farkas heard bodies adage the antecedent of it ability be the Salton Sea, she said, "I don't alike apperceive breadth that is."

No surprise, conceivably -- the abutting allotment of the Salton Sea is about 160 afar from her appointment in Sherman Oaks.

Beginning aboriginal Monday, array of bodies appear a rotten egg odor to blaze departments or air affection officials, and acceptable bags added smelled it -- if not millions.

In accession to swaths of L.A. County, it was appear in Ventura County to the west and San Bernardino and Riverside counties to the east.

Even a few bodies in Orange County smelled it.

On one online map, readers appear the aroma as far as Simi Basin to the west, Temecula to the south and abutting to Lancaster to the north.

No one application the freeways could possibly accept catholic so far so fast in Southern California.

Monday evening, admiral said they weren't abiding of the cause, but "several factors" acicular against the Salton Sea.

The South Coast Air Affection Management District, an intergovernmental anatomy that regulates air affection in abundant of Southern California, beatific acreage inspectors to the San Fernando Valley, Long Beach, Colton, San Bernardino, Riverside, Perris, Temecula, Banning, Palm Springs, La Quinta and the Salton Sea on Monday.

In a columnist release, Barry Wallerstein, controlling administrator of the district, said it's abnormal for odors to abide so able 150 or added afar from their source, but thunderstorms about the Salton Sea and aerial apprehension from the southeast allegedly pushed air against Los Angeles.

A abominable acrid anatomy of baptize spanning Riverside and Imperial counties, the Salton Sea is abominable for its aroma acknowledgment to massive angle die-offs.

Andrew Schlange, acting accepted administrator of the Salton Sea Authority, said gases acceptable congenital up from addle bacilli afterwards a contempo angle die-off.

Brian Humphrey, a Los Angeles Blaze Department spokesman, said dozens of bodies appear the aroma in L.A., mostly in the Foothill breadth and the arctic San Fernando Valley.

Cue the assured jokes.

"#SmellsliketheValley" went one Twitter hashtag from addition who goes by @LAScanner.

Even afore any official chat on the cause, bodies ventured guesses, accomplished or not. Regional stereotypes came into comedy -- and not aloof in the Valley.

Roberta Marroqui of Rancho Cucamonga said, "It smells awful. You apperceive what, I anticipate it's the beasts from Chino."

Most bodies declared the aroma as like rotten eggs or sulphur.

Farkas had a added specific description for what she smelled while accepting coffee in Studio Burghal afore work: "ketchup and eggs."

It was a adolescence anamnesis for her -- admitting not a affable one.

"I don't absolutely like ketchup with my eggs," she said.

The aroma led to some abnormally anapestic comparisons.

"Why does the absolute basin aroma like ocean associate today?" wrote @lacantdrive on Twitter.

John Bradford, a 69-year-old in the San Bernardino County burghal of Rialto, had no complaints about the air but said his tap baptize tasted like "dirty socks and underwear."

In Chatsworth, Arlet Abrahamian opened the aperture to her barn and wondered, "Did article die in here?"

The aroma seemed to blow in the afternoon. It wasn't credible in Granada Hills or Chatsworth afterwards lunch, and Farkas said it had gotten weaker in Sherman Oaks.

There were bodies who smelled annihilation all day. Writing online, some of them were blessed to accept absent out, while others seemed about anxious of those who had accomplished the smell.

Ana Jones of L.A. wrote on Twitter she didn't aroma anything, conceivably because she had a cold.