I never, in all my years, heard of a derecho.
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.
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“I never, in all my years, heard of a derecho.”
It’s what normal people call strong winds.
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...
“ 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.
It’s the Spanish word for straight. So straight line winds are a derecho.