Posted on 07/16/2024 4:32:29 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A long-lived thunderstorm complex called a derecho raced across the Midwest Monday night, producing widespread damaging winds from Iowa to Illinois, including Chicago, Indiana and southwest Michigan.
In Indiana, a 44-year-old woman was reportedly killed when a tree fell on her Cedar Lake home, according to ABC 7 Chicago.
While travelers inside Chicago's O'Hare International Airport were told to shelter in place during a tornado warning, dozens of planes sat on the taxiway with passengers inside.
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I recognized the pattern on RADAR last night as it blew in across L. Mich.
It got pretty sporty for a while here in DuPage County.
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These things form due to masses of hot air interacting with cold air. This was probably due to the overheated rhetoric from MAGA Republicans after they staged a phony attack on their incipient dictator Donald Trump. We Democrats see right through you Republicans and other fascists!
(/sarc)
We were lucky- a few drops of water hanging in the basement window side on the west side, which got all the wind. Ground floor and upstairs windows were fine.
Shouldn’t be much of a fix- that wind was pretty strong.
We are North of Rockford. Winnebago County.
Back when i was a youngster we just called them storms. Times change.
I remember one blowing thru Southern York County, 15 or so years ago. It caused a lot of tree and farm out-building damage.
I prefer calling it severe thunderstorms.
We just called them squall lines.
Having experienced the Derecho in DC in June of 2012...I will attest it is nothing like a typical 4-star storm.
At noon that day...I glanced at the weather chart and they announced it’d crossed Michigan and would be bearing down on DC by 8 PM...massive speed.
By 2 PM, they were putting out major alerts in DC...telling people to head home by 3 PM. I exited the Pentagon around 4 PM...with massive black clouds in the northwest.
By 6:30 PM, the winds started up, and massive rainfall. Power stayed for an hour.
Damage done? No electrical...no phone service...nothing. Even at 6 AM the next day...I only picked up three radio stations in the local area. It was like a full-up hurricane in terms of damage done. I didn’t see power for 5 days.
My advice, if the weather guy say ‘derecho’...you need to visit the local grocery and get a week of survival food and as much ice as you can keep in the cooler. If you can leave the local area ahead of the storm, do so. Don’t expect local services or help at all.
Later in the evening it appeared to be heading for Milwaukee and we joked that it was the cabal's weather machine, nailing the Republican convention this time (we had said the same thing about the Iowa caucus weather).
Anyhow, we got nailed by torrential rain and straight line 70 mph winds for a while, though the closest tornadoes were anywhere from five to 20 miles away. The thunder itself was remarkable.
"No, sir, I didn't like it."
Probably. But the term “derecho” has been around meteorology circles since the 1880s.
“Derecho.” The new fear term for a wind storm. We just called the wind storms in the past. They could flatten crops fast.
At least it’s not snow…🙄
I was watching the radar all night until about 12:45 AM EST. Thankfully where I am in central Indiana we didn’t get much, however, the N/W corner of the state got hammered pretty good. A friend of mine lives up and he said the weather got pretty wild.
I can see all of those things out of my office window at work.
Working at home today.
Our building in the Des Moines area was affected .
I saw odd looking clouds as I left work yesterday
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