Bad smelling fog

bogwalrus

I live outside macroom and there is a very bad smelling fog in the area. It seems to be many kilometers across so I don't think it is localised. I live high up so can see quite a distance. I read online that sometimes bad smelling fog can come from the sea but this smells very chemical based not like seaweed. Any ideas?

bogwalrus

I just looked at a weather map of current wind direction and notice that wind is coming from main land Europe. Could this smog have been pushed from Europe rather than originating from the sea?

DOCARCH

Noticed a dirty/brown looking haze in Dublin this morning.

endacl

Any sign of tentacled creatures from the abyss wandering about in it? If so, the news isn't good...

odyboody

bogwalrus wrote: »

I live outside macroom and there is a very bad smelling fog in the area. It seems to be many kilometers across so I don't think it is localised. I live high up so can see quite a distance. I read online that sometimes bad smelling fog can come from the sea but this smells very chemical based not like seaweed. Any ideas?

with the wind direction, probably just smelling Cork city:D

Cantona's Collars

It's the fumes from the Cork snowshield being fired up and tested for next week.

bogwalrus

endacl wrote: »

Any sign of tentacled creatures from the abyss wandering about in it? If so, the news isn't good...

I'm sure if I inhaled enough of it I would be seeing more than tentacles.

bogwalrus

Some google searching brought me to a page about vog which describes the sulfur smell and reddish grey appearance of the smog. However vog is owned from volcanic fumes and I don't think there are any active volcanoes nearby.

aisling86

Im living in Macroom & there was a haze this morning driving to cork, it cleared around EMC, then driving home was the same. I didn't get any smell though.

Villain

This has happened near me in the past and it was due to a large pig farm, the wind direction along with fog meant the smell was slowly carried and held then.

positron

DOCARCH wrote: »

Noticed a dirty/brown looking haze in Dublin this morning.

Dublin regularly gets a brown cover of smog thing, I will try and post a photo next time I see it.

gabeeg

Smelly fog thread doing pretty well, given the day

Brianmeath

Bad Guinness

gabeeg

Don't remind me

garancafan

Brianmeath wrote: »

Bad Guinness

Uh-uh. Bad Murphys.

Rougies

gabeeg wrote: »

Smelly fog thread doing pretty well, given the day

We need something to speculate over between model runs :pac:

ZX7R

I remember asking my wife's late grandmother, what singes would tell her if snow was coming, she said a smell of rotten frog span would be smelled before a heavy snow, she was from eastern Europe

gabeeg

Rougies wrote: »

We need something to speculate over between model runs :pac:

If smelly fog is all I can get, then smelly fog it is. I'll take it.

Are there any models that can depict smelly fog?

gabeeg

ZX7R wrote: »

I remember asking my wife's late grandmother, what singes would tell her if snow was coming, she said a smell of rotten frog span would be smelled before a heavy snow, she was from eastern Europe

See I don't know what fresh frog spawn smells like, so this means nothing to me.

ZX7R

gabeeg wrote: »

See I don't know what fresh frog spawn smells like, so this means nothing to me.

I don't know what either smell like

gabeeg

Well I guess we'll have to take her at her word

gabeeg

sdanseo wrote: »

Main model updates at 2200, 0400, 1000 and 1600, ECM around 1830 and 0630

In the intervening 6 and 12 hour periods expect coping mechanisms to kick in for those with less willpower

I say we get to the bottom of this smelly fog business, once and for all

An Ri rua

Its smelly snow you have to watch out for.
Sneaks up on you one flake at a time.
That's where the name weather bomb comes from. Stinkfest from on high

ZX7R

gabeeg wrote: »

I say we get to the bottom of this smelly fog business, once and for all

Probably just a local farmer aggregating the slurry tank, and it just happened to be foggy at the same time

gabeeg

An Ri rua wrote: »

Its smelly snow you have to watch out for.
Sneaks up on you one flake at a time.
That's where the name weather bomb comes from. Stinkfest from on high

Maquiladora?

gabeeg

ZX7R wrote: »

Probably just a local farmer aggregating the slurry tank, and it just happened to be foggy at the same time

Too easy.

Its bound to be something far more complex.

Kristopherus

Might be the rotten smell of Brexit from across the pond !!!!!

ZX7R

gabeeg wrote: »

Too easy.

Its bound to be something far more complex.

Chemtrails from a low flying jet

Rougies

gabeeg wrote: »

If smelly fog is all I can get, then smelly fog it is. I'll take it.

Are there any models that can depict smelly fog?

Of course there are!

gabeeg

ZX7R wrote: »

Chemtrails from a low flying jet

Dude, that makes no sense.

If the government were secretly spraying us with all-sorts, why would they make it smell like crap?

You've yet to truly commit to finding the truth

An Ri rua

gabeeg wrote:

Maquiladora?

gabeeg wrote:

If the government were secretly spraying us with all-sorts, why would they make it smell like crap?

gabeeg wrote:

Dude, that makes no sense.

gabeeg wrote:

You've yet to truly commit to finding the truth

Chemical toilet from a low-flying jet ....

gabeeg

Now we're getting somewhere

ZX7R

gabeeg wrote: »

Dude, that makes no sense.

If the government were secretly spraying us with all-sorts, why would they make it smell like crap?

You've yet to truly commit to finding the truth

The truth is out there dude, you just got to smell it

gozunda

bogwalrus wrote:

I live outside macroom and there is a very bad smelling fog

ZX7R wrote: »

I remember asking my wife's late grandmother, what singes would tell her if snow was coming, she said a smell of rotten frog span would be smelled before a heavy snow, she was from eastern Europe

Surely that would be a "smelly frog" and not a "smelly fog"?

gabeeg

bit racist, if taken out of context

but otherwise, yeah. good point

gabeeg

might have been a massive misunderstanding

bogwalrus

Villain wrote: »

This has happened near me in the past and it was due to a large pig farm, the wind direction along with fog meant the smell was slowly carried and held then.

There is a pig farm somewhere in the area so maybe this was the cause. So basically it was ordinary fog that trapped the smells coming from the pig farm rather than a smog? I assume smog has nothing to do with actual fog.

bogwalrus

ZX7R wrote: »

I remember asking my wife's late grandmother, what singes would tell her if snow was coming, she said a smell of rotten frog span would be smelled before a heavy snow, she was from eastern Europe

I also live near a load of forestry with streams full or frog spawn. There must be acres of frog spawn in my area. It has been snowing a small bit also. I was on a walk in the first the last day though and no smell around at all.

ZX7R

bogwalrus wrote: »

I also live near a load of forestry with streams full or frog spawn. There must be acres of frog spawn in my area. It has been snowing a small bit also. I was on a walk in the first the last day though and no smell around at all.

Could there be a land fill near by, releasing gas, or a bog a shift in wind air pressure could result in gas's been released

Villain

bogwalrus wrote: »

There is a pig farm somewhere in the area so maybe this was the cause. So basically it was ordinary fog that trapped the smells coming from the pig farm rather than a smog? I assume smog has nothing to do with actual fog.

If there is a pig farm in the area I would bet money on it being the cause so.

mikeecho

I stopped at the petrol station in Lissarda today, and YUP.. there definitely is a pong in the air.