Commerson crater

The Commerson Crater is a caldera in the mountains of Réunion , a French overseas department. It is located in the municipality of Saint-Joseph and is part of the Piton de la Fournaise , a shield volcano at the eastern end of the island, but outside the Enclos Fouqué , the youngest caldera of the volcano.

The caldera was named after Philibert Commerson , a French explorer.

climate

Due to its elevated position, the Commerson Crater receives significant amounts of rain , especially during tropical storms . During Cyclone Hyacinthe in January 1980 it received 6,433 millimeters of precipitation in 15 days, the largest amount of precipitation caused by a tropical cyclone in a single location. The second largest amount of rainfall during a single tropical cyclone also occurred at Commerson Crater, when Cyclone Gamede dropped 5,512 millimeters of rain over the area in 2007.

Individual evidence

↑ Chris Landsea: Subject: E4 - What are the largest rainfalls associated with tropical cyclones? In: noaa.gov. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Division, 2007, accessed February 4, 2020 .
↑ Hubert Quetelard, Pierre Bessemoulin, Randall S. Cerveny, Thomas C. Peterson, Andrew Burton, Yadowsun Boodhoo: Extreme Weather: World-Record Rainfalls During Tropical Cyclone Gamede . In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society . tape 90 , no. 5 , 2009, p. 603-608 , doi : 10.1175 / 2008BAMS2660.1 .

-21.207968 55.632952Coordinates: 21 ° 12 ′ S , 55 ° 38 ′ E

[1] Chris Landsea: Subject: E4 - What are the largest rainfalls associated with tropical cyclones? In: noaa.gov. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Division, 2007, accessed February 4, 2020 .

[2] Hubert Quetelard, Pierre Bessemoulin, Randall S. Cerveny, Thomas C. Peterson, Andrew Burton, Yadowsun Boodhoo: Extreme Weather: World-Record Rainfalls During Tropical Cyclone Gamede . In: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society . tape 90 , no. 5 , 2009, p. 603-608 , doi : 10.1175 / 2008BAMS2660.1 .