And, as a consequence, ozone holes could reach New York's skies soon. An ozone hole is a portion of the stratosphere in which ozone buffers have almost disappeared. Relatively short exposure to this radiation can alter the human DNA structure causing various types of skin cancer and cataracts. The UVB rays can also damage crops, some plastics, and many forms of marine life. And I think that this could easily happen.
Ozone holes occur generally in spring and can be very large.
These holes have already reached inhabited places in South America and Oceania. In Australia, for example, the media alerts sunbathers when the ozone hole is blown over the continent by stratospheric winds. The same could happen here in New York within a few years.