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Central US faces ‘particularly dangerous situation’ from potential derecho with 100-mph winds, giant hail
Nypost ^ | 05/19/2024 | Steven Yablonski, Aaron Barker

Posted on 05/19/2024 4:28:21 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

They used to be called “straight line winds.” There was a derecho in Wayne County Michigan in 1980. They have the power of tornadoes without the spin. My husband and his brother experiences it. The power there in Wayne, Michigan was out for a week.

Same thing about El Nino and El Nina...fear mongering with the use of foreign words.


21 posted on 05/19/2024 5:11:14 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Cold Heart

Never heard of a derecho till a few years back. And I am 77 years old. We just called them a rain and wind storm.

I am reminded when the local weather news went bonkers over the term “El Nino” back in the 1980s. You would have thought the end of the world was nigh.


22 posted on 05/19/2024 5:24:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( Government is not reason, it is not eloquence-it is force!--G. Washington)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“derecho”. Latest fear mongering word to frighten people. It is just a big thunderstorm with lots of rain, as has been happening since forever”

Yeah...until you’ve lived through one like we did in eastern Iowa in August 2020. Without power for over a week. Houses destroyed..fields flattened. We had power companies from the south come up and say the damage was in some areas was worse than a hurricane...minus the flooding. You don’t know what you don’t know...Cedar Rapids lost 65% of its tree canopy. Just a thunderstorm with rain.....


23 posted on 05/19/2024 5:33:06 PM PDT by Runner4life
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

On January 11, 2022, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Environment and Climate Change Canada formally revised the criteria for a storm to be classified as a derecho. A wind storm must meet the following criteria:

Wind damage swath extending for more than 400 miles (640 km)
Wind gusts of at least 58 miles per hour (26 m/s; 50 kn) along most of its length
Several, well-separated 75 miles per hour (34 m/s; 65 kn) or greater gusts

Prior to January 11, 2022, the definition for a derecho was:
Wind damage swath extending for more than 240 mi (390 km)
Wind gusts of at least 58 mph (93 km/h; 26 m/s; 50 kn) along most of its length


24 posted on 05/19/2024 5:37:57 PM PDT by Reynoldo (BurnLootMurder)
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

Right


25 posted on 05/19/2024 5:39:33 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

“I never, in all my years, heard of a derecho.”

It’s what normal people call strong winds.


26 posted on 05/19/2024 5:40:09 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: combat_boots

https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/derecho


27 posted on 05/19/2024 5:41:37 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Dechero? Never heard that term before today.


28 posted on 05/19/2024 5:42:28 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

North Mississippi and West Tennessee experienced one from Memphis to around the Alabama state line a few years back and the damage was pretty severe...it was named Hurricane Elvis...


29 posted on 05/19/2024 5:45:39 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: al baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4FDdOnWPaw


30 posted on 05/19/2024 5:52:16 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: vetvetdoug

Whenever they rarely happen around here I just say it’s Chicago sucking.


31 posted on 05/19/2024 5:53:21 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

“ I never, in all my years, heard of a derecho.”
Because you’re not spanish! Those julios and julietas know what that means!
Bastardization of the english language.


32 posted on 05/19/2024 6:04:55 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: V V Camp Enari 67-68

It’s the Spanish word for straight. So straight line winds are a derecho.


33 posted on 05/19/2024 6:10:00 PM PDT by Blueflag (Very often renting a Tesla from Hertz has the lowest rental cost per day versus even a compact gasol)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

““derecho”. Latest fear mongering word to frighten people.”

You have no clue.


34 posted on 05/19/2024 6:11:29 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: DesertRhino

“Dechero? Never heard that term before today.”

Maybe that’s because you didn’t spell it correctly.

Think I learned the term following the storm that took out the Hood Canal Floating Bridge in 1979.


35 posted on 05/19/2024 6:15:08 PM PDT by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“ It is just a big thunderstorm with lots of rain, as has been happening since forever.”

Wrong you obviously know nothing about thus weather event


36 posted on 05/19/2024 6:52:29 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Bonemaker

“ It’s what normal people call strong winds.”

Wrong again. These are hurricane force winds


37 posted on 05/19/2024 6:54:24 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I heard of derecho in meteorology class 58 years ago and hadn’t heard of it since till now:)

We’re the same age.


38 posted on 05/19/2024 6:56:09 PM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: ssapro

LOL


39 posted on 05/19/2024 7:56:08 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

A derecho will typically have:

Well over hurricane force winds, usually delivered (by the storm over its path, not in any one spot) for hours, perhaps several hours.

Holds together as an identifiable continuous storm for several hours. (Little “diminish here and pop up new over there” type tomfoolery, once it gets going.)

A path length of several hundred or even over 1000 miles.

A very large and sustained bow echo.

Large, strong, and sustained rear inflow jet.

Sometimes will have a significant and sustained bookend vortex.

How much of those fit the NWS description of even a large, strong thunderstorm?

The only thing that comes close is a storm carrying a long track very large tornado, similar to the one that hit Western KY a couple years ago. However, NWS does not consider such a storm to be in the same class as a “big thunderstorm with a lot of rain”, nor does such a major tornadic storm cover a wide area as does a derecho.

Living in the Midwest and now in the Mid-South, my family is very accustomed to “big thunderstorms with a lot of rain.” Some produce significant damage. The derecho that whacked us in May of 2009 was a whole ‘nother ball game...


40 posted on 05/19/2024 9:19:12 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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