Lake Nyos
Map showing location of Kuk, Cameroon
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Lake Nyos |
Kuk Rainfall | |
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| There is a definite correlation of the rapid accumulaton of rainfall and overturning of the lower layers of Lake Nyos. | |||||||||||
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| There was a weather station at Nyos-Acha recording daily precipitation. LeGuern and I went to the compound the week of August 27, 1986 in search of the recorded rainfall data. There were no survivors, except for a dog growling at us from inside the compound. We were unable to locate the notebook containing the rainfall data for Nyos-Acha. | |||||||||||
| The village of Kuk has an elevation of 1328 m, which is the same elevation of Lake Nyos (1356 m). Kuk is approximately 5.0 km west of Nyos-Acha. | |||||||||||
| Rainfall, Kuk (pdf)
Map showing location of Kuk, Cameroon |
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| It probably took about 4 to 5 hours to ride my dirt bike from Fundong to Nyos-Acha on August 24, 1986. The roads were so impassable. It has been raining miserably all week. Buckets! | |||||||||||
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