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But they also can strike rapidly with no warning, even on a rainless day months after the end of the rainy season.

They said they could even smell the smoke indoors, in a Manhattan restaurant, then walked outside and saw a sky that looked like it was about to storm — but was rainless.

The conditions have to be just right, usually after a rainless period that allows the particulates to accumulate.

A sinister legend runs counter to the pious never-on-Sunday schedule: that early organizers made a deal with the devil to ensure rainless parade days.

That resulted in several more rainless weeks during which local forests could dry up and more time for fires to ignite.