Comments on: Storms and Tree Death in the Amazon https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/13/storms-and-tree-death-in-the-a/ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:51:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Sean McCorkle https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/13/storms-and-tree-death-in-the-a/#comment-520545 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:51:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/13/storms-and-tree-death-in-the-a/#comment-520545 According to this – http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-232
the storm took place around 17 Jan 2005 – so it was NOT associated with the infamous Brazilian hurricane of 2004 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Catarina)
Man, what IS going on with the weather?

This also reminds me of the MPR story on the 4 Jul 1999 “Big Blow” in the Boundary Waters Wilderness:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/07/01/bwca_blowdown_anniversary/
Maybe not as devastating as the South American event, but 600 sq. miles of forest down very quickly.

]]> By: Sean https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/13/storms-and-tree-death-in-the-a/#comment-520544 Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:40:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/13/storms-and-tree-death-in-the-a/#comment-520544 Yep, the Amazonian forests don’t really experience high winds very often…When there is even a moderate wind in the jungle I get scared of all the falling trees!

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/13/storms-and-tree-death-in-the-a/#comment-520543 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:35:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/13/storms-and-tree-death-in-the-a/#comment-520543 This

…violent storm that swept across the whole Amazon forest in 2005 killed half a billion trees,

is amazing, and made me think two things.

a) It must have been one hell of a storm
b) I really can’t picture the amount of area covered by these forests

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