Comments on: A cloud forest in…. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/a-cloud-forest-in/ Fri, 24 May 2013 15:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Pratchetter http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/a-cloud-forest-in/#comment-28788 Pratchetter Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:46:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=8347#comment-28788 The weirdest part about Salalah is getting there. It's literally about a 1000 km from Muscat, Oman's capital, and the two are connected by one long, normally deserted road. After you've been driving down it for >10 hours, through the most barren desert imaginable, you finally crest a hill. On the leeward side, it's entirely desert, just like it's been for the past 10 hours, but as soon as you reach the windward side you see something exactly like this picture. It's quite an excellent demonstration of rain patterns in action. The weirdest part about Salalah is getting there. It’s literally about a 1000 km from Muscat, Oman’s capital, and the two are connected by one long, normally deserted road. After you’ve been driving down it for >10 hours, through the most barren desert imaginable, you finally crest a hill. On the leeward side, it’s entirely desert, just like it’s been for the past 10 hours, but as soon as you reach the windward side you see something exactly like this picture. It’s quite an excellent demonstration of rain patterns in action.

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]]> By: Sandgroper http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/a-cloud-forest-in/#comment-28786 Sandgroper Fri, 10 Dec 2010 09:55:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=8347#comment-28786 There's a cutting adjacent to that road (in the Salalah Mountains photo) that will not remain stable long term. Sorry, occupational hazard. I just feel slightly uncomfortable with the idea that the forest has existed in that state since the Oligocene. I wonder if that is just supposition. Beautiful looking country, but above the clouds is uncomfortably wet. There’s a cutting adjacent to that road (in the Salalah Mountains photo) that will not remain stable long term.

Sorry, occupational hazard.

I just feel slightly uncomfortable with the idea that the forest has existed in that state since the Oligocene. I wonder if that is just supposition.

Beautiful looking country, but above the clouds is uncomfortably wet.

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