What an excellent article! I have always wondered why
one can smell rain and this is a good explanation. I more or
less figured it was some sort of release mechanism as they
describe because of the fact that the smell is strongest just
before the rain and diminishes to your basic wet smell after a
short time. We have actually been having brief sprinkles at
times, but they are not enough to do a bit
of good. As for your previous request to trade some of our
weather for yours, I will see if we can get everybody to put
their box fans outside and point them northeast. Something tells
me there is a flaw in this plan, but we are willing to try
anything at this point.
On Friday, we hit 42.8 Celsius or 109 Fahrenheit. I
walked home from work during this time and it is amazingly
hot.
We are supposed to get major relief, however. It is
called Autumn and it should be here in 2 months. Actually, it
takes another month after that for the temperatures to catch up
to the calendar.
As for your end of the bargain, you need bigger fans
since the circulation in the Northern hemisphere is from West to
East. We're still waiting.
As for the ozone mentioned in the article, that, to me,
is one of those primal scents. I have a couple of EPROM erasers
that use ultraviolet te lamps to clear out the memory in EPROM
and PIC microcontroller chips. They ionize the air when you
operate these lamps and produce ozone so your nose tells you if
the lamps are working. Since they are dangerous to skin and
eyes, one runs them in closed containers but you can smell the
ozone when you open up the compartment to retrieve the chips.
The smell makes me instantly think of electrical storms.
There is even a theory that lightning strikes helped create some
of the first chemical compounds that started the process of
turning primordial goup in to us.
Gordon Keen writes:
> Hi
>
> Martin et al, keep sniffing!
>
> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=storm-scents-smell-rain&WT.mc_id=SA_CAT_BS_20120720
>
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