[carolinalivin]

We just returned from Asia and our trip included Shanghai and Beijing. The air was calm in both with little wind. I was struck by the dirty air, worse than I remember in Southern CA in the early 60s. My wife noticed it when she felt dirt particles in her hair after we were outside most of the day.

I remeber in Rome three years ago when we were wearing black clothes and it started to sprinkle. Tiny spots of dirt/mud on our clothes.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

The Rome "blood rain" thing is famous. You were lucky to experience it. Sand from the Sahara in North Africa is supposed to blow north to Italy, and then when water vapor condenses around typed sand, it rains, and the rain is supposed to be reddish.