How far back does 'storm smelling' go?

In ancient cultures, weather predictions were accurate and inaccurate when they were made.

But specifically for the method of 'smelling the ozone in the air' to predict a storm, how far back does that go, you think? Were there pioneers of this method?

Or is it more recent; such as a chemist using the periodic table of elements?
 
While I, nor do I think anyone can prove this, but I would say going as far back as there have been "humans". Even most wild animals can predict, to an extent, a coming storm. If you can smell, then you can probably smell the rain/ozone in the air. There probably weren't any pioneers, perhaps those that were better at it, but even today other than those with olfactory issues can predict storms. I would highly doubt this to be a modern "invention". It would seem to me as more or less something humans have always been able to do.
 
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Granted it could very well be that until recently (relatively speaking), that it was "known" what was happening.
I mean people always knew if you dropped something it fell, however they didn't know it was because of gravity. That had to be "discovered" ;-)
 
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