Bang!

[Colwyn]

For several days in a row we have had heavy build ups of cloud and rumbles of thunder in mid-afternoon but they have not come to anything. Same again today and I was thinking "Surely this has to break soon?". Then a strike of lightning, a tremendous crash of thunder followed by a cloudburst - producing petrichor.

Great word isn't it? And this post is really just an excuse to use it.

[usedbustickets]

Was you petrified Colwyn?

[Colwyn]

Nah, I was too stoned to worry.

[KKOB]

OK, I'll admit I had to Google it.

[Colwyn]

KKOB, yeah, but the smell is something you've known all your life isn't it? Bur it took two Australian scienists to wonder what is, how it is produced and to give it a name. A name I forget straight way and have to look up every time I smell it. But at least I know now that is has a name. What about the smell of freshly cut grass in the summer? Does that have a name and an explanation?

[Menthol]

Nowhere near as romantic as we might have hoped.


http://mentalfloss.com/article/30573/what-causes-fresh-cut-grass-smell

[scorcher]

Atcospheric would work maybe?

[KKOB]

Mountfield syndrome ?

[Colwyn]

Nowhere near as romantic as we might have hoped.

Thanks a bunch, Menthol. Now I suppose I'll have to feel guilty when mowing the lawn that the grass is screaming out in pain and sending out aromatic defence signals. And I suppose that I'll have to give up eating meat as well since cows and sheep also torture grass.

[Menthol]