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A derecho is a significant, potentially destructive weather event that is characterized as having widespread, long-lived, straight-line winds associated with a fast-moving group of severe ...
A shelf cloud along the leading edge of a derecho in Minnesota Damage caused by a derecho in Barga, Italy. A derecho (/ ˈ d ɛ r ə tʃ oʊ /, from Spanish: derecho [deˈɾetʃo], 'straight') [1] is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale ...
According to the National Weather Service, the term comes from the Spanish word “derechos” to mean “direct” or “straight ahead" and was first used in 1888 by a chemist and professor of ...
The derecho weakened considerably when the July 2011 Iowa-Illinois-Michigan-Ohio derecho sucked the instability and moisture from the storm over Lake Michigan. The derecho traveled more than 400 miles (640 km) and produced nine tornadoes in North Dakota and Western Minnesota. July 2011 Iowa-Illinois-Michigan-Ohio derecho: July 11, 2011 [32]
Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus is a Latin [2] maxim [3] meaning "false in one thing, false in everything". [4] At common law , it is the legal principle that a witness who falsely testifies about one matter is not credible to testify about any matter. [ 5 ]
The National Weather Service in Sioux Falls classified the storm system as a derecho — a meteorological phenomenon not centered around South Dakota since June 2020, when a ... The term 'derecho ...
In most legal systems of the Spanish-speaking world, the writ of amparo ("writ of protection"; also called recurso de amparo, "appeal for protection", or juicio de amparo, "judgement for protection") is a remedy for the protection of constitutional rights, found in certain jurisdictions. [1]
The cognates in the table below share meanings in English and Spanish, but have different pronunciation. Some words entered Middle English and Early Modern Spanish indirectly and at different times. For example, a Latinate word might enter English by way of Old French, but enter Spanish directly from Latin. Such differences can introduce ...