Hah, I wasn’t expecting this to make international news. I was sort of wondering what that smell was earlier in the day but it wasn’t too strong where I live so I just sort of forgot about it until I saw this headline.

I’d bet it’s Russians burning trash in the dumps (either legal or illegal) around St. Petersburg. The dumb fucks have been warned for years that especially if the illegal dumps with gods know what in them ever caught fire (on purpose or not) it’d probably at the very least cause a horrible smell that might linger for even a month, and the smell definitely did resemble burning trash and car tires. At least apparently there’s nothing dangerous in the air, or so the Finnish Meteorological Institute claimed anyhow