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What It Means When You Can Smell Rain Before It Happens
You might just know it as the smell of rain, but it has an official name: petrichor. The name, coined in 1964 by Australian scientists Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Grenfell Thomas, comes from the ...
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When it starts to rain in Louisville, do you smell petrichor?
TA: It really is. It really is. But petrichor is the word for the smell of rain. So that earthy smell before it rains. No, you're not losing your mind. That is actually happening. And the term was ...
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I can’t wait until we can barbecue again! Chiu Ka-yat, 13, Maryknoll Fathers’ School I love rainy days because I can smell petrichor – the earthy scent that is produced when rain falls on ...
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Petrichor aka Simon Stokes
The word Petrichor refers to the sweet smell that fills the air when it rains after a period of dryness, something which evokes memories of childhood summers for Glasgow based techno producer ...
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Rain and snow potential all day with travel impacts likely
Tonight, chances of rain and snow showers occur before 3 a.m. with a slight chance of rain showers after the fact as well to really wake up the western slope with that petrichor smell tomorrow.