Can you smell snow?
 

Does anyone else imagine that you can smell snow...like when it is going to snow? I'm not trying to snow you.

Nope, but I can smell when it's going to rain.

My broken but healed bones can predict weather changes a lot faster than my nose.....and more accurate than the local weather-guessers too! :p :p

Can you describe the smell?

Absolutely :)

I can smell rain coming. I never "smelled" snow, but I always feel it. I haven't had any broken bones to gain this power either, lol. But it's different than when I know rain is coming :shrug: I'm more accurate then the weather guessers here too, but that isn't hard to beat.

I can usually tell by wind direction change and cloud formations if it's going to snow immimently within a half day or so. No long term 'smell' to know it's going to snow, though. I watch cows to see what they are doing, too.

Yes, I think there is a smell before snow like there is before rain. It's almost like the smell of line dryed sheets, but less intense and more of a crisp smell IMO.

I don't know how to describe the smell but there definitely is one. It isn't as distinct as rain. It's just a wet, cold, clean smell in the wind.

....or open the freezer door when it's empty of food and take a quick whiff.

I can smell it when it's near.

i can smell snow on the way also..

it smells like ozone to me.

I can smell snow, too.

Absolutely! :dance:

Oh yeah! I can smell it! Sometimes all the way from Mount Washington!

......and ozone smells like negative ions. :shrug:

snow
 

Yes I can. Can't describe it but I know.... not sure if it is a smell, changes in the barometric pressure or just what but I have leaned to trust the feeling.

It seems to me the smell of coming snow occurs within the first 1/2" of the end of my nose..in the top portion..the smell is sharp and bright.

Mon

When we were first married DH always made fun of my "nose". But now he's learned to trust it. Yep, can smell both snow and rain.
Karen in Indiana

OMG, Yes!! LOL. I always say "it smells like snow" and my fiance says, no, that's just someone with a fire in their fireplace somewhere. But IT'S NOT! I KNOW what a woodfire smells like, and this is NOT the same thing!! We've had this debate for years, and I just figured he was right, because he usually turns out to be right (darn him!), but now I know other people can smell it too! THANKS!! :p :dance:

People have thought I was crazy when I would say "...smells like snow..."
I'm not the only nut!!!!

yes. my daughter's nose is our snow forecast. my sinuses predict rain and storms but not 100% with snow. Her nose doesn't fail

Yeah, that's the best description I can come up with.

http://unclebobs.infopop.cc/1lach1.gif I was going to say snow smells like a picture window, because that's what I want between us. I can smell water because I have lived in the desert where you don't get to smell it very often. A donkey can smell water a half mile away. And water is full of tricks we don't know about, including electrical effects such as making ozone at odd moments, so it's quite possible that some people can smell snow. But I'm not one of them.

I can't smell snow now because there's no snow happenning here

but when snow is falling and I'm outside in the falling snow, yes, there is an olfactory sensation, I think.

My hubby and I can both smell snow when it's on the way. I love the smell. I wouldn't be able to describe it though.... crisp, fresh, cold, sharp come to mind, but it's such a distinct smell.

I can smell snow, rain, heat (I'm not kidding, if the wood furnace is getting to hot, or something is left on or overheating, I can tell), the exact moment when food is finished cooking, and teeny tiny amounts of mold. I guess it makes up for having horrible vision!

Absolutely I can smell when a snow is coming. It does smell different.

Yes! And my husband always looks at me like I belong in a padded room when I tell him. :flame:

yes, smells crisp and clean to me, a little bit liike sheets out on the line on a colder day.

Yes!!!

Yes. That's pretty close. :)

Yes, i can definitely smell snow when it's coming. Hard to describe though - i'll have to pay more attention when it's coming next time.

"Smells like snow"
But I couldn't describe it to you :shrug:

Triff ..

I can definitely tell when it's going to snow. The air has a certain smell that I immediately associate with snow. The first thing on me that acts up during a pressure change is my knees, the screws in there assure that.

What is snow???




:p

:badmood: Snow is the very worst 4-letter word in the English Language. Some people think it's pretty, but that's only because they don't have to live in and put up with it 5 months out of every year. (yeah--you can call me grouchy)

Yes, but have not been called on to exercise this talent for years. And no, it doesn't smell like your freezer. That's metallic/ammonia-y smelling.

I CAN smell that fresh Northern Canadian cold air! :)

Yep, and can you hear it? I can hear it in side the house, sometimes wakes me up. Like a blanket of pressure and its qiuet then its hitting the trees, lines, roof and tinkling through the air. Tinkling?