{"id":15541,"date":"2018-11-05T23:26:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T04:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=15541"},"modified":"2018-11-05T23:26:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T04:26:57","slug":"why-you-can-smell-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/11\/why-you-can-smell-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you can smell rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since rain is in the forecast, I thought you might be interested in this story from <em>EarthSky<\/em> about what we call &#8220;petrichor&#8221;, which is basically the musky, earthy odor we smell when it starts raining. It is not the rain itself that has an odor, but the moisture releases chemicals from the soil that combine to give that musky fragrance. You can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/what-is-smell-of-rain-petrichor?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;amp;utm_campaign=9e4469f9a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_02_COPY_01&amp;amp;utm_medium=email&amp;amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-9e4469f9a6-393619445\">here<\/a> to find out where these natural chemicals come from.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1522\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-south-africa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1522\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-south-africa-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-south-africa-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-south-africa-184x138.jpg 184w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/rain-in-south-africa.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since rain is in the forecast, I thought you might be interested in this story from EarthSky about what we call &#8220;petrichor&#8221;, which is basically the musky, earthy odor we smell when it starts raining. It is not the rain itself that has an odor, but the moisture releases chemicals from the soil that combine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15541"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16018,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions\/16018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}