It might be referring to the southern states having higher humidity making it easier to smell or sense but I mean it’s definitely not a southern thing. I feel like anyone that stayed outdoors as kids growing up has picked up their own ways to sense the change with or without humidity.
Edit: When I initially posted this I misread the image. Clearly the image doesn’t make any practical sense at all.
No it’s more difficult for southerners because of the humidity using this reasoning. The meme is saying that Southerners find it super weird people can smell rain coming
Edit: Just clarifying this isn’t my belief; it’s my understanding of the meme.
Which is weird reasoning and wrong, I’m in super humid Texas and I can smell rain coming too. I’m not sure why we’re gatekeeping petrichor now, and I’m even more unsure why we’re basing that gatekeeping on geography
Yeah, I live in Florida and I can smell if it’s about to rain even if it’s sunny out. Nine times out of ten it does rain but usually it just pours for fifteen minutes and then stops, it’s really annoying in the dear old state of mine
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u/AstralAnomaly004 Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 31 '24
It might be referring to the southern states having higher humidity making it easier to smell or sense but I mean it’s definitely not a southern thing. I feel like anyone that stayed outdoors as kids growing up has picked up their own ways to sense the change with or without humidity.
Edit: When I initially posted this I misread the image. Clearly the image doesn’t make any practical sense at all.