Juliett Bravo Kilo
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Random info dump:
This is a translation from English, but it does appear that South America as it's own 'Tornado Alley': https://translate.google.com/transl...i/Pasillo_de_los_Tornados&prev=search&pto=aue
Forum on n the Encarnación, Paraguay tornado of 1926 that supposedly killed 300 people. : http://foro.gustfront.com.ar/viewtopic.php?t=1556
The setup is interesting: you have the large pampas (plains) where cold air from Patagonia and Antarctica collides with warm, moist air from areas of Brazil, northern Argentina and Paraguay, and dry air from the Andes. I wonder if the Amazon rainforest plays a role in tornadogenesis down there, be interesting to see studies done on that, and if deforestation of it may have an effect on tornado formation down there. I also can't help but wonder if perhaps a massive wedge has ever gone through the Amazon Rainforest and no one was around to see or hear it? Not likely with the vast amount of people that live in, near or around it but who knows?
And of course this pic from Agua Doce,Brazil:
This is a translation from English, but it does appear that South America as it's own 'Tornado Alley': https://translate.google.com/transl...i/Pasillo_de_los_Tornados&prev=search&pto=aue
Forum on n the Encarnación, Paraguay tornado of 1926 that supposedly killed 300 people. : http://foro.gustfront.com.ar/viewtopic.php?t=1556
The setup is interesting: you have the large pampas (plains) where cold air from Patagonia and Antarctica collides with warm, moist air from areas of Brazil, northern Argentina and Paraguay, and dry air from the Andes. I wonder if the Amazon rainforest plays a role in tornadogenesis down there, be interesting to see studies done on that, and if deforestation of it may have an effect on tornado formation down there. I also can't help but wonder if perhaps a massive wedge has ever gone through the Amazon Rainforest and no one was around to see or hear it? Not likely with the vast amount of people that live in, near or around it but who knows?
And of course this pic from Agua Doce,Brazil: