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Mystery Solved
« on: July 13, 2021, 09:46:45 PM »
Wife said she noticed a sewage scent in the air today while she was outside, but it wasn't coming from our system, and we are not windward from our neighbors.

We just heard on the news that the Sahara Desert is experiencing a rather large dust storm today, and it has blown across the Atlantic and up from the Gulf of Mexico. You can see the result by how red the Sun looks while it is still fairly high in the sky.

I told here she was smelling camel dung.  :facepalm:

Mystery solved.

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Re: Mystery Solved
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2021, 09:51:09 PM »
Are you downwind of DC?
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Re: Mystery Solved
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2021, 09:59:01 PM »
Why am I asking that? We're ALL downwind of DC.
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Re: Mystery Solved
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2021, 10:12:03 PM »
Quote from: WLJ on July 13, 2021, 09:59:01 PM
We're ALL downwind of DC.

Sad but so very true.
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Re: Mystery Solved
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2021, 02:50:32 AM »
Around here (CO) they're sayng the red skies are from all the forest fires.
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Re: Mystery Solved
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2021, 08:56:12 AM »
Quote from: 230RN on July 14, 2021, 02:50:32 AM
Around here (CO) they're sayng the red skies are from all the forest fires.
Maybe that is coming from the Sahara Desert also.  It is pretty hot there. 
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Re: Mystery Solved
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2021, 12:06:30 PM »
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Re: Mystery Solved
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2021, 02:41:04 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on July 14, 2021, 12:06:30 PM
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/saharan-dust-helped-build-bahama-islands-180952173/
But that doesn't explain the forest fires in 230RN's area. 

Do the Bahamas smell like sewage?  Never been there myself.
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Re: Mystery Solved
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2021, 07:00:28 PM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on July 14, 2021, 12:06:30 PM
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/saharan-dust-helped-build-bahama-islands-180952173/

Seems like most of the lee from the Sahara is in Southeast U.S. and southerly of us'n.

Not saying Colorado can't see some Saharan dust, but nobody hereabouts (to my knowledge) has offered that idea to explain the red skies.

Thee are a lot of surprises in Colorado geology, including a visible iridium layer* east of Denver and seashells high in the mountains, as well as dinosaur-age fossil bones all over the place.

So anything's possible, I reckon.

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