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From:
Brisbane Gliding Adventures
Date:
19/06/2013 9:08 PM
Subject: Wave
cloud and tree damage?
To: "aus-soaring"
My dad (life long Forestry worker
Henry) told me many years ago about some strange
damage to pine trees that he had found in the back
(western-most) paddock of the Strahorn State Forest
near Peak Hill, in the Central West of NSW.
(For those who have flown out of
Narromine, it is the 10,000 acres of trees smack
bang in the middle of farming country south of
Narromine ... midway in a line between Peak Hill and
Tullamore).
The
way he described it, the branches of trees had been
shorn off as though something had scooped down from
the tops of the trees getting gradually lower and
lower to ground level then gradually back up to the
tree-top level again on the other side of a wide
"flattened to ground-level" area.
I
attended a Gliding Queensland lecture last night on
Wave Clouds where the presenter (Wes McIver)
mentioned briefly that wave cloud formations can
actually touch down to ground level on rare
occasions.
I
have been thinking today that maybe this could
explain the pattern of tree damage that my Dad had
referred to all those years ago.
Maybe
I am just putting 2 and 2 together and coming up
with 5?
Kevin
Rodda
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