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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 ...
Two boats and a helicopter, the instruments of rescue most frequently cited in the parable, during a coastguard rescue demonstration. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each ...
As the derecho moved through Ohio, a second storm developed in Iowa and tracked into northern Illinois. The earlier derecho had used up most of the convective energy in the atmosphere, so this second storm did not become another derecho. Nonetheless, a small MCS with a bow echo developed and became severe as it moved along this track.
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 ...
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 ...
In simple terms, a derecho behaves like an inland hurricane with a large batch of damaging winds and heavy rainfall that can at times lead to significant flooding. The National We
First Named Derecho: July 31, 1877: The severe windstorm crossing Iowa that Prof. Gustavus Hinrichs identified as something special, and named the "derecho" for its straight (rather than spiraling) winds. [1] 1965 Chicago Derecho: August 26–27, 1965 [2] Ohio Fireworks Derecho: July 4, 1969 [3] 1977 Southern – Mid-Atlantic derecho: June 6 ...
With slightly different wording, the statement appears much earlier in press reports dating from the end of the First World War, while a similar concept has been sought in Plato's Laws, and in Karl Marx's often-misrepresented [note 1] partial quote that "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the ...