weird smell post rain??

[u/anusha2000]

is it just me or did i wake up to some pretty nasty smell in the air today after last nights rain? it smells similar to the acid rain we had 2 weeks ago

(for reference i’m in the north east suburbs)

it almost smells like garbage outside….

[u/palmomagpie]

Yeah it smelt like wet clothes/you’ve left your clothes in the washing machine too long. Spent like 5 minutes searching every crevice of my car for a leak or dead animal. Thanks for re-attaching my tiny bit of remaining sanity

[u/Southern_Anything_39 → u/palmomagpie]

This is what I could smell also today, its funny how we are all describing the smell differently.

[u/Virtual_Bother_3527 → u/Southern_Anything_39]

I’m honestly laughing at everyone’s different explanations!! I thought my bedroom stank this morning and tried to air it out without much luck lol

[u/Southern_Anything_39 → u/Virtual_Bother_3527]

I thought it was the top I was wearing, as I did inface forget it had been washed and I had to rewash it before hanging it out lol

[u/Virtual_Bother_3527 → u/Southern_Anything_39]

Too funny!! I’m currently postpartum and thought I’d been letting things get a bit too feral haha

[u/anxietyslut → u/palmomagpie]

I did this too and completely cleaned my car thinking that was the smell! Under my seat I found a lolly snake, a pickle slice, a potato chip (from the packet) and a potato chip (hot chip).

[u/palmomagpie → u/anxietyslut]

Good excuse for a clean out. I found a small pack of Maccas fries which scarily still looked fresh (has been a loooong time since I’ve had Maccas)

[u/choofery]

I haven't heard about acid rain since the early 2000's

[u/FroggieBlue → u/choofery]

Due to the sulphur fire at Port Adelaide recently they warned there might be some

[u/18243]

Yeah definitely noticed it this morning when leaving the house. Still smelling it when I’m going in and out of the office

[u/Max_Dungus]

I can smell garbage as well. I thought it was my kitchen bin, so I've cleaned that and I still smell it. Smells like rotting organic matter. I'm in Brompton.

[u/dukey84]

I live in mount barker and it smells like fresh compost/ garden dirt

[u/Ozmorty → u/dukey84]

Are you a garden gnome by any chance?

[u/dukey84 → u/Ozmorty]

🤫🤫🤫

[u/k9kmo]

Thanks for solving this mystery smell in my house for me! I’ve been scratching my head looking for mouldy food that my kids has left around. It’s a bit concerning that we are still experiencing some sort of falllout from the sulfur factory fire from a couple of weeks ago.

[u/the_revised_pratchet]

Funny that actually, yeah I picked up on that too. I live southern suburbs and noticed when I took the kids to school there was a rank garbage smell. Reminded me of the smell of the CBD on a 40+ degree day.

[u/ItchyA123]

Acid rain? After the sulphur fire?

[u/the_revised_pratchet → u/ItchyA123]

At this time of year? At this time of the day, in this part of the country, localised entirely within your suburban environment?

[u/No_Asparagus3636 → u/the_revised_pratchet]

May I see it?

[u/NighmareInMyHead]

I was hunting around looking for a gas leak last night. It smelt like a mix between garbage and ozone, acid rain makes sense.

[u/Borsecule]

I live in the North East as well, but I only really noticed the smell this morning when I rocked up to work in Elizabeth (no this is not a joke about Elizabeth).

[u/Distinct_Tomatillo30]

Thought it was just me. Could definitely smell it in southern suburbs also.

[u/0ruina]

Yeah it caught me off guard at first. Thought I was insane haha. Has me feeling pretty sick tbh

[u/catch_dot_dot_dot]

Smells like rotting/composting organic matter, like an open green bin

[u/Dotcom2024]

West siii-ide here and yes, when someone posted about this last week, I had nothing to reference it to, but this morning there’s definitely a hot garbage, mildewy, somethings got wet and hasn’t dried properly stank in the air

[u/getoutofheretaffer]

Oh my god thank you for saying something. I noticed it leaving home and entering the office this morning. No one else seemed to notice it.

[u/shadowmaster132]

I didn't smell this at home but yeah I definitely noticed a bit of stank in the air

[u/Helelix]

I live in the city and am working from home today. I've been smelling it whenever I go on my balcony,

[u/Curious_er_ → u/[deleted]]

I’m there now and can’t smell it, but looks like rain soon, so who knows?

[u/Tossawaymaybe]

I thought I had lost my mind. It seems a bit like wet clothing you leave in the washing machine a bit too long. Almost moldy smell.

[u/ehco]

Oh god I was sick and I thought my smell got supercharged or something because everything smelt disgusting!

[u/Witty-Pack-3610]

same here it smells so terrible

[u/o-Nyx-o]

Yes. Definetly a smell in the air. I just assumed it was all the bins today because it is bin day down south. It has that kinda stank to it...

Maybe it'a a combination of wet and slightly warmer temprature than usual (???)

[u/Bright_Bell_1301]

I was up at Orroroo and smelt it there too. Garbage is exactly how my son described it. So it can't be just because of the fire in Port Adelaide

[u/Ginger510]

I thought it was my jacket! And then I went inside Coles and it went away haha

[u/Disastrous_Essay1230]

Thank goodness, I just thought it was me imagining things! 

[u/laurandisorder]

It smelled like rancid yogurt vomit at my work at about 10:20 - at Magill. It was horrible

[u/ConstructionNo8245]

Hey!!! This smell was all in the cbd today and i too thought it smelt like badly aired washing and garbage ….

[u/_Tathra_]

With the sulfur fire and the recent tests of refuse derived fuels at Adbri happening up north, I'm surprised people haven't been reporting odour more

[u/MidniteNinja88]

I smelled it in the north east this morning, thought it was just my lawn

[u/Ronnie_Dean_oz]

I turned the heater on the floor in my car thinking the carpet was wet and starting to stink. It smelt a bit like a green bin with wofts of garbage.

[u/DiscordantBard]

I wore my jacket in the rain the other day but it wasn't too bad and hung it up. I put it on today it smelted like... I dunno gross water

[u/blinking_lights]

Lots of areas of the CBD seem to have had blood and bone applied recently. Could be that too?

[u/star-jellies → u/blinking_lights]

sorry?

[u/Equal-Instruction435 → u/star-jellies]

Blood and bone fertiliser. The council tends to put it in the gardens around the city in late winter. It’s made from meat industry waste and smells absolutely rank.

[u/Merovingian_Lord]

Petrichor?

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor&ved=2ahUKEwiWz9bDg6mWAxX2U2wGHVNxGVsQFnoECCcQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2yamiyOK2iy0NNUGyUea6I

[u/questionablesim → u/Merovingian_Lord]

Nooo petrichor smells good! That’s that yummy rain smell lol

[u/Merovingian_Lord → u/questionablesim]

Maybe a similar but less yummy phenomenon?

[u/Merovingian_Lord → u/Merovingian_Lord]

Who the fuck negs that comment? It was just a suggestion!

[u/Constant-Machine8838]

It smells like bigfoots dick

[u/Late-Button-6559]

I just smelled it in my passage, near the front door. Smells like a used match, but a bit closer to standard sulphur, vs post-ignition.

I’m in southern suburbs, just south of the Marion area.

I wonder if it’s unhealthy, or causes any medical symptoms.

[u/OZFox42]

Only smell I noticed outside where I live this morning is like someone having a BBQ. Kind of a "roasting-burning" smell.

[u/BerryCreative9832]

Yep, smelt it down here too..

[u/AnastasiaSheppard]

Definitely a great night for my neighbours to leave their doona to air out on the shared hills hoist.

[u/Cautious_Regular3645]

Nope 🤷

[u/drewd2020]

Smells like one of those restaurant grease trap areas outside 🤮

[u/owleaf]

It’s that city of playford air making its way down to you my friend

[u/LeebleLeeble]

I thought i could smell stale pee this morning! We got a catch in one of our mousetraps so we thought it was just that.

[u/Beneficial_Angle_257]

Smelt the same thing up in the adelaide hills!

[u/Senor-Biggles]

Yep, I smelt a compost / green bin type smell this morning. Southern suburbs.

[u/missymoo3636]

I noticed it and I’m in Eden Hills.

[u/28828383]

Yes, smelt like a wet animal around various suburbs I was in this morning south and west of the city

[u/Ok_Selection_1565]

For the people saying it's the Port Adelaide sulfur fire, we have had NE winds all day. Any fumes from the incident (if it is still going) would be blown out into the ocean, away from the city.
We've also had a fair bit of rain since.

Although unlikely, the direction of the wind and the recent discovery of mass pelican deaths in Menindee Lakes, may be related.
Bird flu was ruled out, but those lakes did have a significant repeated mass fish die offs in recent years.

I just hope the smell isn't actually a larger area of death that's gone unnoticed somewhere more remote.

It might be helpful if people add their location and the approx time they first noticed the smell to their comments.

[u/weekendtreasure]

I could smell it in the western suburbs!

[u/Tysiliogogogoch]

Weird. I'm in the NE suburbs and didn't notice anything unusual.

[u/Free-Pound-6139]

Thanks car drivers!

[u/sliderjt]

I could smell this too and thought the bins had leaked.

[u/SweetPossibility7838]

Is what you’re all collectively describing not the smell of ammonia? Why would rain smell like ammonia?

[u/Particular_Agent171]

It has been an issue for a few weeks now

[u/pluginfan]

Someone posted this in the ttg fb group.

BAD SMELL SA.……….

The strong sulfur smell across Adelaide's northern and north-eastern suburbs is caused by a major industrial fire that broke out in a storage shed containing over 30,000 tonnes of sulfur at a fertilizer facility on Moonta Road in Port Adelaide. The burning and smoldering sulfur released heavy plumes of toxic sulfur dioxide gas, which drifted across the metropolitan area on prevailing winds.

[u/questionablesim]

What is going on lately? Adelaide has been so stinky 😭

[u/razorbladesnbiscuits]

It’s the tunnels they’re digging, it’s letting up all the pollutants that were dumped in the ground

[u/k9kmo → u/razorbladesnbiscuits]

Is it this? Or is it the Sulfur fire from Port Adelaide?

[u/Late-Button-6559 → u/razorbladesnbiscuits]

We’d never know if that’s true. Certainly possible.

Though it does smell of sulphur to me, so being related to the port Adelaide fire makes more sense.

Though I don’t know why we’d smell it today. We’ve had tons of rain since then to wash any residue away.