It just hailed here really bad, and it reeked like dirty pond water.
What's up with that?
2007-03-14 10:10:42 · 4 answers · asked by a kinder, gentler me 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
No waterspout involved...it was pouring rain - no smell; then the hail started falling -it smelled; then it stopped hailing but it continued to rain - smell gone...
2007-03-14 16:46:37 · update #1
mother nature forgot to douche???
2007-03-14 18:15:03 · answer #1 · answered by blondie extrodianarre 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The smell that most people associate with fish is actually the smell of the water, mostly bacteria and other organisms in the water, the fish live in. A thunderstorm can often pick up water from a lake or stream by way of a water spout and the water it eventually drops will smell like "fish" or the things it picked up from the lake or stream.
2007-03-14 18:02:29 · answer #2 · answered by Controlfreak38 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There may have been a water spout involved with the storm system that passed through. The water spout could pick up water from a lake and carry it along with the storm system until it fell out with the hail.
2007-03-14 17:25:47 · answer #3 · answered by physandchemteach 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm... that is mysterious.
2007-03-15 01:04:13 · answer #4 · answered by THATgirl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋