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I cannot be the only person who can smell snow?

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DillieTantie · 28/12/2009 19:50

The above says it all, really. When snow is a couple of hours away, I can just smell it in the air. My DH thinks that this is impossible. My teenage DD thinks I am mad. Small DD and DS are impressed as they assume I was raised by wolves.
However, I am always right, whatever the weather forecast says.
I have always been able to smell snow coming. It can't be just me, surely?

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fanjolina · 28/12/2009 20:04

Not sure about snow as I have rarely ever encountered it (didn't even get any where I am these past 2 weeks), but I can smell thunder approaching.

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DillieTantie · 28/12/2009 20:36

IKWYM, I can smell that as well. I think maybe I have a very sensitive nose - I know if someone is smoking within about 100 metres.

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pofarced · 28/12/2009 20:38

yes I know what you mean too.

festivenameneeded · 28/12/2009 20:39

OOOH everyone laughs when I say this, but its true I can smell snow lol you are not the only one

Goblinchild · 28/12/2009 20:41

My DS can smell snow coming, and rain and thunderstorms. He also gets very restless several hours before it gets seriously windy.
We just think of him as a more primitive lifeform, he'd be an asset for any tribe!

50ftChristmasTree · 28/12/2009 20:41

I too can smell snow. I can also smell the change of season on it's way.

LittlePeanut · 28/12/2009 20:41

My DH reckons he can smell snow too.

plumpud · 28/12/2009 20:42

HAAaaaa I can too and dh really takes the mick out of me.. but I am always right!

MollieO · 28/12/2009 20:43

I can smell it and when it is about to snow at night the night sky changes to a browny-orange colour (at least to me [fmile].

Meglet · 28/12/2009 20:46

I know what you mean too, we can all be bit a bit crazy together .

I walked home from town earlier and thought it seemed like it might snow (despite not having seen the latest forecast), and, hey presto, heavy snow forecast for tonight.

choccyp1g · 28/12/2009 20:49

Yes of course you can, I think I can smell snow coming too. My Mum always used to say she could smell snow coming.

moonmother · 28/12/2009 20:53

I always know when it's going to snow or thunder,or have a very bad lot of weather, not sure if a smell or just a sense in my case.

I'm the same with the seasons too, especially spring and autumn.

a few times I've mentioned to Dp that it's either going to snow/thunder/storm and he has laughed, but a while later I've been proved right.

He calls me his weather witch now

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DillieTantie · 28/12/2009 21:31

I'm so glad that not only is it not just me, it is loads of folks who can smell the weather before it arrives. What a relief.

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ABetaDad · 28/12/2009 21:32

Yes, I think it is perfectly normal to smell snow. It seems I get it from my mother as we are both extremely sensitive to atmospheric and electrical disturbances and weather. She has been hit by lightening twice and me once.

More worryingly, a few weeks ago I discovered something really weird about myself that when I touch DWs skin in bed at night I transfer a continuous electrical current to her that creates a very audible buzzing sound and a glowing blue light.

DillieTantie - just the same with smoke too.

PerArduaAdSolInvictus · 28/12/2009 21:34

Snow smells sort of metallic doesn't it?

ABD's audible buzz and glow is much more worrying

Georgimama · 28/12/2009 21:39

I can tell before I open the curtains that it has snowed, the light is obvious. Not sure about the sniffs though. You lot are weird.

Nemofish · 28/12/2009 21:41

ABetaDad - The answer is simples, just ensure DW's battery compartment is shut correctly and perhaps take in for a servicing to check for loose connections.

OP I can't say I've smelt snow, but rain and thundestorms definitely. YOU ARE NOT ALONE... THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!!!

weegiemum · 28/12/2009 21:43

I can smell snow and when I smell it I see purple.

(I have a form of synaesthesia)

IMoveTheStarsForChristmas · 28/12/2009 21:47

I can smell snow coming a couple of hours away. I can sense thunderstorms (i get a bit wild in the head - have done since I was about 7)

norfolkBRONZEturkey · 28/12/2009 21:49

I can smell snow in the air
My worst is that I get headaches before thunderstorms, along with weird prickling at the base of my head

Mshalfcut · 28/12/2009 21:53

I can smell snow...Why did this make me laugh? ..must be the wine/baileys

AvonBarksdale · 28/12/2009 21:56

It is possible to smell snow! What you are actually smelling are the chemical changes in the space around you stirred up by the changing weather front. The best time to notice this is literally just before it starts raining on a sunny day. Science bit over!

IMoveTheStarsForChristmas · 28/12/2009 21:57

norfolk - I know exactly what you mean about the prickly head things before thunderstorms!

Mshalfcut · 28/12/2009 21:58

I mean in a I can see dead people kind of way...sorry ignore me

ABetaDad · 28/12/2009 21:59

weegiemum - wow that is intersting. Does everyting go purple? Do you 'see' other smells as other colours?