“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.
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.”
8 years ago, one came through DC. Not fun.