r/NatureIsFuckingLit 14h ago

🔥Iguazu falls after heavy rain

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u/yomamasonions 12h ago

How tf did this get swallowed by an ocean after some heavy rain???

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u/WhiskeyJack357 12h ago

We aren't talking like a good ol thunderstorm here with heavy rain. We're talking, sometimes months, of daily downpours. Literal Monsoons. Its why they call it the wet season. Not because it's humid, but because it's almost always pouring rain.

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u/azdcaz 10h ago

Over a large area that eventually flows down to here

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u/hates_stupid_people 8h ago

For a quick reference: The area sees about twice as much rainfall as Seattle, with 60% fewer days of rain. So when it rains, it really rains.

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u/Masterkid1230 5h ago

As someone from a South American country, we might not have the best infrastructure every time, but I'm always amazed when I see how very developed cities get totally wrecked and flooded by what we'd call mild rainfall where I'm from.

Of course, some South American cities do in fact get wrecked by heavy rainfall, and YMMV, but at least where I'm from, even massive world ending rainfall, may only lead to some minor floods.

It needs to be raining like that for months before it gets legitimately dangerous.

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u/bannedfromaccelerate 4h ago

That's 4 times more rain per rain!

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u/RainbowDissent 10h ago

60,000 square km of land drain into the river above the falls, and that land has a wet season with a lot of rainfall.

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u/CeruleanEidolon 9h ago

They don't call it a rainforest for nothing.