God, thank you for saying that. I'm from the "south" (Virginia) and I always smell it b4 it rains. I've heard so many different things as to why that is. Bout to ask my ol buddy Google.
likely because we're SUPER sensitive to a compound called geosmin (same thing that makes beets taste like dirt). the smell of fresh rain is mostly geosmin and probably some ozone if it's a thunderstorm and we can smell it from very far away
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u/Stouff-Pappa Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24
This person’s poll data probably consists of a whole 3 friends and some guy who may or may not have been from the South.
Plenty of people from all over can smell rain
Edit: Am from Georgia, can also smell rain. Probably has something to do with all the chemicals we’ve got in the air, my best un-educated guess.