Historic August 2020 derecho destroyed over 1 million acres of crops, U.S.

watchers.com ^ | 8/17/2020 | Teo Blaskovic

[Roman_War_Criminal]

More crop destruction to US Farmlands.

A simple google search will provide dozens or articles on the devastation as well.

Things aren’t getting better. Better be prepared, and have Christ in your heart & mind.

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Maranatha!

[cuban leaf]

Derecho. Now that’s a word you don’t hear every day.

Is that like, a kind of jelly?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

“Is that like, a kind of jelly?”

Yes, the bouncy type that topples buildings.

[cuban leaf]

What flavors does it come in? :)

[EEGator]

I think it’s Mexican jelly.

[cuban leaf]

Man, It’s looking more like the 1930’s with both political AND natural disasters.

[Bayan]

“Derecho. Now that’s a word you don’t hear every day.”

Indeed! I usually test very well when it comes to vocabulary but I’d never seen that word in my life until reading about this event. I had to look it up! Now that I have, I like the word but I don’t think the opportunity to use it will be frequent.

[dainbramaged]

I thought I was a wordsmith until derecho showed up:
A derecho is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system and potentially rivaling hurricanic and tornadic forces. Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds, tornadoes, heavy rains, and flash floods.

[jjotto]

Ten million acres of crops affected. Not clear what actual losses will be.

Won’t much affect the overall corn crop, expected to be a record at over 15 billion bushels.

[cuban leaf]

I did the same thing.

BTW, I’m 66 and that’s the first time I’ve seen it. Now I gotta practice using it in a sentence. “Young lady, your room looks like the aftermath of a derecho”

“After woodstock, the whole area looked like it had been hit by a human derecho.”

[Iowa Slim]

That thing plastered my town and county. It was like a straight-line tornado several counties wide.

[corkoman]

derecho? Derecho? give me a break. the weather people so bored they gotta invent polar vortex and dericho. Whats next? a polar Blarphnarg!

Stupid

[CJ Wolf]

The First Named Derecho July 31, 1877 - The severe windstorm crossing Iowa that Prof. Gustavus Hinrichs identified as something special, and named the “derecho” for its straight (rather than spiraling) winds.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

It has been a biblical year. I can’t wait for the locust plague and the rivers to run red.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I watch the Weather Channel. They taught me the word “derecho” 2 months ago. Woo hoo!

[ealgeone]

Careful what you wish for!

[metmom]

That’s about it.

People think it has to be a tornado that causes that kind of damage, but straight line winds can do that and more, as a derecho is a larger event.

[dfwgator]

Remember when it was just called “Weather”?

Now every weather event has to have a specific name.

[metmom]

Derechos have been known for quite a while,

They just aren’t so common so peopl don’t hear much about them.

It’s certainly not something someone just made up recently.