If the title of this episode sounds familiar, you must be a Creedance Clearwater Revival (CCR) fan like Shannon is! Well, CCR might have actually been singing about seeing the rain but on today’s episode of Naturally Florida, we’re talking about smelling the rain. Rather, more accurately, we’re talking about the smell before the rain, also known as Petrichor.
New Episode from Naturally Florida
Naturally Florida (a podcast about Florida’s natural areas and the wild things that live here) recently released a new episode about petrichor!
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- Learn More:
- What is petrichor? https://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/escambiaco/2023/08/02/weekly
- Petrichor – The Smell of Rain – https://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/students/highschool/chemistryclubs/infographics/petrichor-the-smell-of-rain.pdf
- Rainfall can release aerosols, study finds – https://news.mit.edu/2015/rainfall-can-release-aerosols-0114
How You Can Help:
- Get familiar with using multiple sense to detect a rain event
- Listen to our episode about thunderstorms in Florida – https://open.spotify.com/episode/3UUy9kHHEzcU5FfEhUyULm?si=C2j0TTqgSnaKCg4SWaPmuw
- Find time to get out in nature and learn the amazing smells of the natural world
Sources for this Episode:
- Rainfall can release aerosols, study finds – https://news.mit.edu/2015/rainfall-can-release-aerosols-0114
- Recreating the smell of rain (petrichor) with geosmin – https://youtu.be/B5JHJ8k1geM?si=Pxwgbh6Ek3AV-ivW
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