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The event was confirmed to be a derecho in Finland alone, extending the swath of wind damage to the west coast of the country. [110] August 2010 Baltic – Finland derecho: 8 August 2010: Severe wind gusts more than 81 mph (130 km/h; 36 m/s) were measured in Estonia. [110] [111] This was determined to be a derecho event. [112] July 2011 ...
The 2022 European derecho was a violent derecho which resulted in strong winds on the French island of Corsica and in parts of northern Italy, Austria, Slovenia, and the southern Czech Republic on 18 August 2022 which traveled over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi). [5] [6] [1] The event resulted in 12 fatalities, and at least 116 others were injured. [1]
Derecho comes from the Spanish adjective for "straight" (or "direct"), in contrast with a tornado which is a "twisted" wind. [5] The word was first used in the American Meteorological Journal in 1888 by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in a paper describing the phenomenon and based on a significant derecho event that crossed Iowa on 31 July 1877. [6]
An intense derecho -- a rapidly-moving thunderstorm complex that produces widespread wind damage -- cut power to nearly 1 million households and caused 11 deaths in the Canadian provinces of ...
List of derecho events; E. 2022 European derecho; S. Swiss International Air Lines Flight 850 This page was last edited on 6 October 2019, at 00:25 (UTC). ...
The May 2022 Canadian derecho was a high-impact derecho [5] event that affected the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, Canada's most densely populated region, on May 21, 2022.. Described by meteorologists as a historic derecho and one of the most impactful thunderstorms in Canadian history, [6] [7] winds up to 190 km/h (120 mph) as well as around four tornadoes caused widespread and extensive ...
2012 Buenos Aires tornadoes and derecho event April 4, 2012 Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires: 5 ~17 fatalities On April 4, 2012, Greater Buenos Aires was hit by a very severe thunderstorm and a derecho, which produced 5 tornadoes with F1 and F2 intensities. Seventeen fatalities were reported in various locations. [10] [2]
July 2011 Midwest Derecho; List of derecho events; Hurricane Ike, another catastrophic power outage in Ohio. Hurricanes Irene and Isabel, two other catastrophic power outages on the Mid-Atlantic coast. August 2020 Midwest derecho, another powerful derecho that impacted parts of the Midwest eight years later.