COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Many in central Ohio noticed the smell of smoke when they went outside Sunday morning and it turns out that smoke came from fires in West Virginia.  "I thought maybe there was a fire someone had had because of the football game, but it just kept smelling all night long and throughout the morning," resident Lisa Schneider said.  Schneider and John Havener were out for a walk Monday morning. The weather for their stroll was much different than it was 24 hours earlier when there was rain and the smell of smoke. It was noticed by people in several parts of the region.   “I thought it was a chemical fire; I thought one of the neighbors, something like plastic or something because it didn't smell natural," Havener said.   West Virginia has been dealing with wildfires. Storm Team 4 Meteorologist Bryan Still said that ahead of a cold front, wind brought the smoke from those fires to the area. There was also what's called an inversion.   “The air closer to the surface was cooler than the air aloft or farther up in altitude,” Still said. “What happens is anything moving can't really move further upward because that warmer air is trapping it.”  He also said the rain made the smell stronger at times since the smoke was stuck by the inversion.   “It was sort of trapped and so once you had everything trapped together, it was condensing itself, it couldn’t move,” Still said. “It couldn’t go anywhere until it had a vehicle, and that vehicle just happened to be the rain that fell over the city.”  The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) has been paying attention to this too. While Sunday's air quality was not as good as usual, MORPC said it did not rise to the level of an air quality alert.