Sunday 15 April 2018

Odd storms.

We had a very odd sort of storm earlier in the winter. November time.
Well at the time it seemed that it had little effect but as winter has gone on more and more trees are showing up, knocked.
I know it's an Irishism to say that storm knocked trees that never fell before.
Nearby, where I usually bring Jessy for her day walks are State lands, of one sort or another. Some National Park some state forest and some sites of special scientific interest SSSI's. The latter a big thing thesedays.
Anywoo's, I usually go to a deciduous wood of about 400 acres where I noticed with all the snow we've had huge amounts down 'in' off the paths. You couldn't usually see them, but with the snow creating hard contrasts they came out.
Lately though I've been taking her to the ridge and the state forests. where the unusual character of the storm exposed itself profoundly, and makes a kinda sense of the never fell before comment.
These two are a sample. You see they didn't blow over, which is what we'd usually get. And what we usually get is the young trees and the old, very old trees down. But these were snapped off, which was what occurred in the deciduous wood. There I liken the damage like how you'd snap the florettes off broccoli.

 

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  1. Looks a lot like damage we get from straight line winds, as opposed to tornado damage, which can appear more twisted. No matter what... some mighty powerful wind did that!

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    1. The only place I've seen damage to trees like that was from old photos of artillery bombardments in the WW1 where the shell blew at 20 ft. That type of damage is totally new here.
      There are calling it a sting jet. It's like a little comma at the back end of a hurricane. Me I wonder if mobile masts have anything to do with it.

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  2. Wow! That is something. Those are some strong winds to snap trees like that.

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    1. Yep, awesome. In the real meaning of the word. There simply must have been no warning, no built up. Can you image the forces necessary to explode the trunk like that. And it did the same to oak and beech.

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  3. I agree with Kelly, it appears to be from straight line winds. But I don't think I have ever seen such severe damage especially in the lower picture.

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    1. I've been thinking that the wind was parallel or near it. But rethinking, I'm now saying it must be coming straight down or near it.

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  4. It was weird how the late hurricanes crossed the Atlantic instead of beating us up. I’m surprised the trees snapped instead of broke off.


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    1. That one came at us here like it was aimed. It started off Cape Verde and straight as a die, skirting Spain and Portugal, touching Brittany and smashing into Cornwall Wales and us.

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      Dis you see what that idiot has done out in the Public Lands in the west. Utah particularly.

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