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Thanks to whomever added the quotation from Patrick O'Brian's Post Captain. The dread simoom, indeed! A drink with you, editor! -- 216.195.233.191 ( talk) 03:56, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
This is very poetic, but not written in the format that I am accustomed to seeing in articles regarding meteorological phenomena.
Ah hah, this explains a lot. [ Encyclopedia] Comes from there, does it? 68.228.89.148 ( talk) 10:00, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
The Simoom has not been observed in Southern England. What has been observed is "red rain". This was thought in the 1960's (yes I do remember the phenomenon from that time) to contain red dust from Mars (presumably only by readers of the National Enquirer!!) but was as in the past traced to outfall from desert sandstorms, that had been sucked higher into the air and so travelled to Europe. The latest events are blamed on replacing camels with 4x4's http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/aug/20/2. Any idea why this would cause the corpse to dissolve? Red rain following a sandstorm is acidic, and acidic environmental conditions will eventually dissolve bones (P V Globb: The Bog People) but I wouldn't expect the effect to be that immediate. -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 21:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks to whomever added the quotation from Patrick O'Brian's Post Captain. The dread simoom, indeed! A drink with you, editor! -- 216.195.233.191 ( talk) 03:56, 4 November 2012 (UTC)
This is very poetic, but not written in the format that I am accustomed to seeing in articles regarding meteorological phenomena.
Ah hah, this explains a lot. [ Encyclopedia] Comes from there, does it? 68.228.89.148 ( talk) 10:00, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
The Simoom has not been observed in Southern England. What has been observed is "red rain". This was thought in the 1960's (yes I do remember the phenomenon from that time) to contain red dust from Mars (presumably only by readers of the National Enquirer!!) but was as in the past traced to outfall from desert sandstorms, that had been sucked higher into the air and so travelled to Europe. The latest events are blamed on replacing camels with 4x4's http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2004/aug/20/2. Any idea why this would cause the corpse to dissolve? Red rain following a sandstorm is acidic, and acidic environmental conditions will eventually dissolve bones (P V Globb: The Bog People) but I wouldn't expect the effect to be that immediate. -- Elen of the Roads ( talk) 21:45, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
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