In Acadia National Park, a gust uprooted a mature tree that had a small, shallow root ball, as many do in a wet climate and soft soil. That alone is not too remarkable, nor is it that the tree fell across a smaller one and broke it. [In this website, you may find a huge, tree-busting branch fall from an ice storm in Oklahoma, and general mass treefall from a gradient-wind event in the Olympic Mountains.] Strangely, however, the collateral-damage victim in the background split in three places—about two, four and seven feet off the ground—flexing into nearly perfect, closed quadrilaterals as it did so! Several convective and non-convective wind events affected New England in the preceding month, but lacking reports of damage this far east. Given its obvious recency with respect to the time of the photo, one candidate event was a gust on the far outer periphery of the expansive, extratropically transitioning Hurricane Fiona. Fiona made landfall after midnight on 25 September, a couple hundred miles to the east in eastern Nova Scotia, but had strong northerly gusts across much of Maine. This also matches the southward-blown direction of the large trunk.
5 SSE Bar Harbor ME (5 Oct 22) Looking E
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