What makes that smell you can smell when it first starts to rain after a long dry spell?
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When it's been dry for a while and then it rains
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Posted 10 months ago #
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if you're in the middle of nature probably flowers opening up to accept moisture, if you're urban it will be all the micro bits of tyres and oil washing over the surface, hence why you should take your time in the wet after a dry spell..
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Isn't it the first blast of Ozone being released from the Plants/Trees?? (scuttles off to Wiki)
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Petrichor.
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I always assuned it was a combo of rain bringing particulates like pollen out of the atmosphere down to our level (reasonably sensible suggestion?) and also rain hitting ground/trees/plants etc and knocking particulates off them into the air (less sensible suggestion)?
Kev
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No idea what it is but I love that smell!
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Thanks CF, I looked it up - interesting.
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I'm not sure I understand the original premise - "after a long dry spell"
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I'm not sure I understand the original premise - "after a long dry spell"
about three hours..
Posted 10 months ago # -
Druidh... you interested in a 200 miler next year?
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TSY - I'll be doing one before that!
What do you have in mind?
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Petrichor.
*cough*Drwho*cough*
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The roads had that multi-coloured sheen on this morning that says 'gravel rash'
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I'm not sure I understand the original premise - "after a long dry spell"
Normally after the words i do
Posted 10 months ago # -
"Mmmmmmmmmm, sweet summer rain, like God's own mercy"
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