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Post by joepublic on Dec 16, 2009 21:25:46 GMT
I bet you were always being told off at school for contradicting.!! My mother claims she can smell snow!, mind you she's never been wrong, I'll have to set her up as a historical landmark of Celbridge.! When I see someone heading blindly towards a hole I naturally try to warn them. Can your mother smell a change in Government?
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Post by Queenie on Dec 16, 2009 21:29:17 GMT
I don't know, but the one we have now stinks!
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Post by seventwo on Dec 16, 2009 21:37:05 GMT
Seems its just a pile of chemicals :
Question
I can smell approaching snow on the wind. Why does crystallized water have a smell? I grew up in Maryland, spent two years in Colorado, and currently live in Northern California, and in each of these areas, the approaching snow has virtually the same odor . . . But what causes it?
Answer
You have a good sense of smell!
Some of the chemicals that can be in snow are:
Nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde, nitric acid, dimethyl sulphide and sulphate and methanesulphonate. All of these have distinctive odors and the combination is probably what you smell. AllExperts.com
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Post by mrangry on Dec 16, 2009 21:51:37 GMT
I know when we are going to get snow because my right knee aches like mad.
Fortunately,in this country it does not ache very often,but as far as I can discern,if "Global Warming"keeps going on like its now,then my knee will be a lot achier.
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Post by joepublic on Dec 16, 2009 22:26:20 GMT
Seems its just a pile of chemicals : Some of the chemicals that can be in snow are: Nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde, nitric acid, dimethyl sulphide and sulphate and methanesulphonate. All of these have distinctive odors and the combination is probably what you smell. AllExperts.com You would expect the same chemicals to be in rainwater if they are in snow, if not why different.
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Post by joepublic on Dec 16, 2009 22:56:38 GMT
I know when we are going to get snow because my right knee aches like mad. Fortunately,in this country it does not ache very often,but as far as I can discern,if "Global Warming"keeps going on like its now,then my knee will be a lot achier. There's a lot of alternative views going around lately on global warming or not. Some have showed no real change in average temps over the last few hundred years. The ice that was melting at the poles a few years ago has all been replaced, the sea levels are no different than normal despite official reports. Earth warming and cooling can be related to sunspot activity. Here's what can happen to people posing questions to the establishment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l40Hj9iDT6A
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Post by sugarloves on Dec 16, 2009 23:38:09 GMT
all this stuff is way over my head maybe some global warming would be welcome in some parts of the world, but hey in my world you cant be happy all your life can you.
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Post by sugarloves on Dec 18, 2009 23:57:25 GMT
snow... snow.... snow.... bring it on.... weather warning do look in on the old folk lads if you know any and check on them, dont worry about mr a as he got the wife and i sure us young ones will check in on joe too... keep warm..
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Post by Queenie on Dec 19, 2009 19:18:14 GMT
To be honest Joe, yer man was speaking as if he had a couple of hot spuds in his mouth!!! So he certainly did not come across as a normal person asking an awkward question, he came across as a slack jawed idiot from the boondocks who mumbles. Nevertheless, all the pollution going into our atmosphere cannot be good, it has to have some effect.. I see smoke or something billowing out of Hewlett packard and Intel, we don't know what the hell it is doing to the atmosphere around here, then I have the dept of Agriculture testing centre up the road and there's quare stuff coming out of their chimneys too, so it's a wonder there's any of us normal around here!!!!!!
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Post by sugarloves on Dec 24, 2009 10:07:04 GMT
lots of ice on the river i seen it yeasterday did the swans come back loc .and ho ho ho to snow when it coming our way...
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Post by sugarloves on Dec 31, 2009 11:41:04 GMT
snow snow yes its started......................... hope it lasts for some fun.
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Post by Queenie on Dec 31, 2009 15:34:02 GMT
Hope not, whilst I love it, not now please. My uncle died yesterday, so for funerals etc not a nice time for snow.
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Post by sugarloves on Jan 1, 2010 20:29:36 GMT
a loc sorry to hear your sad news hope the weather gets a bit warmer for the service.think the snow will be here for few days and roads are in a state no grit i ask you only happen here otherplaces in the world cope better with worse, us paddys are the laugh when it comes to snow...
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Post by joepublic on Jan 2, 2010 1:54:04 GMT
We could be in for a month of cold weather.
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Post by Queenie on Jan 2, 2010 17:21:51 GMT
The stupid thing about it all is, the rock salt is mined in Antrim, instead of paying the workers double time to get it out over the cold spell, they sit on their arses and suck their thumbs! Luckily all went ok for the funeral, tho it was slippy we all managed without any bother.
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