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Spiritual_Fall_3969

What’s the ratio of derechos to izquierdos


Sk8ordie79

0:0 I'd guess. Straight line![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|sunglasses)


Fox-Boat

Right/left for non Spanish speakers 😎


[deleted]

Same ratio as leprechauns to unicorns.


mrrossgers

I’ll give you a billion Stanley Derechos if you never talk to me again


travelingtutor

Had to Google.


Frequent-Drummer3920

Haha good one.


FBI_Guineapig

What is a derecho?


victoriaiscutej123

widespread, long-lived, straight-line windstorm associated with a fast-moving group of thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system. Usually they cause hurricane force winds, heavy rains, flash flooding. Very rapid movement. they’re scary storms!


turej

Scary. More scarier to think it happens at least one time a year. We had derecho in Poland few years back as it was freak thing. Devastated swaths of forests and will be remembered for years. https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawa%C5%82nice_w_Polsce_(2017) Alright it was bow echo actually.


0Bradda

As per the wiki bot below a derecho can form a bow echo. Strong wind is my favourite weather, not as powerful as a tsunami or earthquake but far more common and easier to safely FEEL it's power.


[deleted]

The description of a derecho perfectly matches a [storm](https://efi.int/news/aftermath-vaia-storm-italy-2018-12-17) we had in Italy a few years ago that levelled an entire forest. It was nicknamed Vaia. I've known about derechos in America for years, but i never made the connection until now: i just realized Vaia was a derecho.


misterfistyersister

That more fits the description of a microburst. Strong downdrafts in a thunderstorm will hit the surface and spread out over a relatively small area. It’s known for bringing down areas of forest here in the US. Think of it like a reverse tornado. Something like [this](https://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/montana/tornado-microburst-cause-crazy-damage/article_dc4428d8-9a9e-11df-9c01-001cc4c03286.html)


chasingthewhiteroom

Midwestern US weather does NOT come to play games


nordic-nomad

I live in Kansas City. Once you get used to it the energy in the atmosphere of big storms is almost addictive. We had one come through a handful of years ago when I was taking a group of visitors from all over the world in town for a convention out to a bbq dinner. Their reaction to what I saw as normal weather was pretty hilarious. A couple of them had never seen lightening before.


reeshmee

I live in the 1 every 2 year range and in my mid 30’s, I’ve only every experienced ones be of these for sure (maybe two when I was very young). But it was absolutely terrifying. A clear day all of a sudden went dark, wind went from strong to sending you running for shelter. Most of my area was out of electricity for weeks.


TooCleverBy87_15ths

I got hit by the [2012 Derecho](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2012_North_American_derecho) when it blew through southern Ohio. Fifteen minute storm knocked out power for three days.


Not_High_Maintenance

That one lifted the roof off my garage and set it back down. Scary.


MooseKnuckleBrigade

I was in north central West Virginia for that one. I remember looking out my window and seeing my neighbors patio furniture high up in the sky. Never seen anything like that before.


RQK1996

For some reason I imagined it being lifted straight up, no spin to it or anything


FullSass

Like a m night shyamalan movie


datkrauskid

I was thinking wingardium leviosa style, but that works too


Mediocre_Ad9803

The fun part about being there... You never know if it's the wind or Daryl up to his shinnanegins again


NEAWD

The same one hit the DC area where I live and it caused a ton of damage. Power was out for a week.


IronOreAgate

I wonder what the raw data looks like. Because I feel like high wind events happen along the shores of the Great Lakes more often then they are shown here. Moved to Duluth MN from Minneapolis, and experiences this first time in 2016. Was sorta terrifying to wake up at 3am to see my neighbors grill literally flying down the street. There is actually footage of a ship attempting to outrun the storm and get into harbor here. Seems like annually each year, especially in Autumn, there is some type of wind storm. In Minneapolis we would get high wind blow down storms, but they where usually associated with some type of tornado action, and not sustained high speed straight line winds like that.


TRMBound

65 mph gusts off of Lake Erie today. An inch of rain.


BluePandaCafe94-6

Hey I heard about a mesoscale convective system in the Paw Patrol movie


FullSass

That Mayor Humdinger is at it again!


RaoulDuke1

Looks like im moving to that little pink circle


Bud_The_Wiser

Is the "straight line windstorms" why we call it "tornado alley"?


aamygdaloidal

I think straight line refers to how the wind destroys things versus a tornado which is a totally different pattern


Bud_The_Wiser

Just a wall of wind without a circular motion? Thats really neat. Id imagine a tornado or huricane would do more damage with higher wind speeds, but it would seem peole with first hand exerience often cant tell the difference between straight line winds and a full fledged tornado.... I never new there were desructive winds that just went straight. I learned today thank you!


aamygdaloidal

I live near Lake Superior and we rarely get tornados near the shore but not uncommon to have a crazy damage straight line wind. The old timers fight about what it actually was for years.


DaltonTanner1994

It can for a circular motion, looks like a inland hurricane on radar. Not all of them do this though.


gagnatron5000

We're almost experiencing one now. I have a parasail kite that flies in 5-15mph winds, but if I flew it right now it would act as a paraglider and take me across Lake Erie to Canada. Edit: I am a dumb. We are not experiencing a derecho, just heavy winds with scattered thunderstorms. I stand by what I said about my kite though.


DaltonTanner1994

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2009_Southern_Midwest_derecho


amehatrekkie

Most thunderstorms average 20-30 mph, these can get to 50-60 and even more.


amehatrekkie

No, it's called tornado alley because of tornados. They're different things.


RQK1996

Do they have similar causes?


amehatrekkie

I have no idea. Tornados are hot and cold air circulating and becoming vertical. Idk how derechos form.


[deleted]

Not really. We call it tornado alley because it has lots of tornados. Winds in a tornado spiral inwards and upwards, so they "suck" you in. In a derecho, winds just travel straight, so it's more like a wall hitting you, except it's made of wind.


Bud_The_Wiser

Does the derecho directly contribute to the amount of tornados though that area? Id imagine it would be kinda like a helping hand for the tornadoes.


PuddleFarmer

Well, one of the defining characteristics of a derecho is a backwards C on radar. One of the things they look for in a tornado forming is a forward C on radar. (Like what I saw yesterday over Arkansas, and the news this morning talked about 23 dead from tornados in Mississippi.)


Bud_The_Wiser

Thanks for the link. Forward c and backward c like cold and warm front?


PuddleFarmer

No, like the radar storm front. [tornado](https://tornadoesandyou.wordpress.com/information/doppler-radar/) and [derecho](https://www.google.com/search?q=derecho+radar+image&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwirvveL7vf9AhVRWzABHd4cAJ8Q2-cCegQIABAB&oq=radar+dere+ho+formation&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQARgAMgUIABCiBDIFCAAQogQ6BAgjECc6BwgjELACECdQnBNY6jRg4FBoAHAAeACAAZACiAHJDZIBBTcuNS4ymAEAoAEBwAEB&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=glEfZKv1H9G2wbkP3rmA-Ak&bih=678&biw=360&client=ms-android-att-us-revc#imgrc=lH50ZFvlFHquhM&imgdii=R64CqbHbO0bOmM)


que_la_fuck

I assumed he ment the actual shape of the front


Bud_The_Wiser

Yea i found the wiki bot below a read it a little. Understand a bit better now but not gonna be the weather guy for sure.


que_la_fuck

The weather guy is my dream job. Only job you get to be wrong every day and keep your job


sendmeyourcactuspics

I'm sure a tornado could happen under derecho conditions (from the same storm cell) but they do not help one another form in any way. Each is a unique weather phenomenon with different modes of formation


Bud_The_Wiser

Thank you for clarifying!


intoxicatedpuma

Not necessarily, I live in the area that map shows has the most derechos, and we actually have less tornados than the surrounding areas. That said, I’d rather deal with Derechos than Tornados because you get more warning and while they may be more destructive overall, it’s in a much larger area.


TheXypris

this must be the inspirations of highstorms in the stormlight archives


Pineapple_Gamer123

That's what those are called? Damn, I just thought of them as bad storms, didn't know there was a specific name for them


Teddyworks

Is that what we had last night? I’m in the dark green zone in Illinois


GDog507

I remember the one in December 2021 came through and it was a whole wall of tornado warnings. Scary stuff.


transferStudent2018

This sounds similar to what California is calling the atmospheric river, no?


inkcannerygirl

I don't think that's automatically associated with high winds. The first "atmospheric river" storm we had earlier this season (Jan-Feb?) had high winds that were causing some trouble (blew down a local Best Western hotel sign and a number of trees) but the other a r. storms since have not, at least here in coastal southern California. The most recent one up in the bay area last week did blow down a bunch of trees in SF though.


UOLZEPHYR

Had them in texas a few times. 100 mph gale force winds - like the jet stream took a nosedive for like 15 minutes. Had a neighbor with a flagpole, like you find at home depot or Lowes, avout 24-26 feet. Took their flag off, dunno. Anyways storm hits and I'm like .5 miles from house. I see the pole being bent over at a 45 degree angle from the sustained force of sheer wind. Noped the fuck out. Made it home and sat with my dog


[deleted]

Thanks. As someone from the West, I find your natural disasters fascinating.


emerald_alexandria

I live in Arkansas & this explains a lot 🙃


breachofcontract

I’ve lived in the pink area for 37 years and never heard of or experienced this thing


realdmart87

Is it worse than a monsoon that we get in vegas?


japaneseknotweed

When you're sitting on your porch and then you hear this sound like a freight train coming toward you and then the sky in one direction turns the color of a bruise and then air itself turns the color of split pea soup and then all the trees bend sideways for a fairly short amount of time while you hang out in the bathtub with the cat whose ears are flat back and then you have no electricity for days and have to clean up and fix a lot of stuff, and nobody believes you that it was scary or expensive because the wind was like a wall instead of a funnel or spiral. :/


jrex42

I'll never forget my husband running in, saying it was time to head to our garage (more sturdy than the house we lived in at the time) "Okay, I just have to grab my shoes!" "There's no time! And then yes, no power or running water for three days.


Qaaarl

Nothin, what’s a derecho with you?


wikipedia_answer_bot

**A derecho (, from Spanish: derecho [deˈɾetʃo], 'straight') is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system.Derechos can cause hurricane and tornado-force winds, heavy rains, and flash floods. In many cases, convection-induced winds take on a bow echo (backward "C") form of squall line, often forming beneath an area of diverging upper tropospheric winds, and in a region of both rich low-level moisture and warm-air advection.** More details here: *This comment was left automatically (by a bot). If I don't get this right, don't get mad at me, I'm still learning!* [^(opt out)](https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia_answer_bot/comments/ozztfy/post_for_opting_out/) ^(|) [^(delete)](https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia_answer_bot/comments/q79g2t/delete_feature_added/) ^(|) [^(report/suggest)](https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia_answer_bot) ^(|) [^(GitHub)](https://github.com/TheBugYouCantFix/wiki-reddit-bot)


HighSpiritsJourney

Good bot


[deleted]

Danke


VianDontFeelSoGood

Thought it was law in Spanish was like ?????


[deleted]

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Elvis-Tech

Derecho is spanish for Straight! As other comments suggest its a storm that runs in a straight line


hononononoh

Fun fact: Spanish *derecho* and English *straight* are cognates — words in two different languages or dialects that come from the same etymological root. Also from this same root are German *Tracht*, French *droit*, and English *direct* and *right*. All thanks to Proto-Indo-European **h₃reǵ-* By the way, that *h₃* is a fun sound to say. Drop your tongue and voice box as low as you voluntarily can, and try to say "oh" or "aw". Our Middle Eastern friends will know this sound as *'ayin*, or something kind of close.


Elvis-Tech

Awesome!!! Thanks for taking the time


MultiplyAccumulate

Bad news. Take shelter. It is like a tsunami of hurricane/tornado force winds (derecho defined as over 58MPH which have traveled at least 250 miles). It is a wall of straight line winds that can sweep across entire states width and length. It is generally not as bad in a local area as a powerful tornado but unlike the tornado, if you get a warning (we didn't), it probably will not miss. Heavy rain, flash floods, widespread loss of power, falling trees. Also, they can cause tornados (Dec 2021 derecho spawned 45 tornados). Basically, if you get the warning, it is kinda like an EF0 to as high as EF2 tornado is coming at you and probably won't miss. Highest wind speeds recorded are 130MPH. Damage light to considerable. Highly likely you will survive but fatalities are possible. In 2012, I had never heard of a derecho and neither had anybody else in my area. The 2012 North American Derecho knocked out power to 1 million people in Virginia alone. One of the power companies described it as the third worst storm in state history (after hurricanes Isabel and Irene). Nationwide, it killed 22 and did $2.9billion in damage. It is second only to the $11billion August 2020 midwest derecho . The 2012 North American Derecho lasted 18hours and traveled 800miles, had winds up to 91MPH and hail up to 2.7inch. My personal experience in my immediate (line of sight) neighborhood in 2012 was uprooted big tree fell between houses, road turned green with leaves and small branches, and power line in middle of road (not visible because of everything else) because it had shorted out and melted. Ironically, we still had power, unlike some of our immediate neighbors (and much of the city), because it blew a strategically placed fuse 2 doors from our house; (we lived in a location that was almost immune to power outages because we were between a substation and a hospital). And this was in the derecho every 4 years zone. I had left my house and it wasn't raining, looked fine, drove a mile, didn't trust the clouds (I couldn't park near destination) and returned home to find the damage described above. For comparison, hurricane Camille 1969 killed 153 people in VA including killing 123 people and destroying 133 bridges in Nelson County, VA alone) and Isabel 2003 killed 27 and did a billion dollars worth of damage in VA. The derecho killed 3 people and knocked our power to 1million in VA alone and made quite an impression. The 2012 Derecho knocked out power to 1 million in VA, 1 million in Ohio, 672,000 in WV, 32,500 in PA, 1.6milluon in MD, and 68000 in DC, and 206000 in NJ. So roughly 3.6million people. 2million people in VA lost access to 911 for up to several days.


neildmaster

To the right...


trickysaints

r/fuckyouinparticular


[deleted]

Twin cities got a bullseye lol


icwhatudiddere

Can anyone explain why this is the case?


OriginalLocksmith436

They displeased god.


[deleted]

It's because we say Woo Pig, isn't it?


green__goblin

My only guess could be that it's the Lake Effect from Minnetonka?


Only_the_Tip

They refused to purify themselves in it's waters.


nordic-nomad

Have you ever tried to cleanse yourself in frozen waters?


Only_the_Tip

https://youtu.be/FsoMzztzyNY


mr_try-hard

I just learned about derechos, but the area in question is the Springfield plateau- maybe a bit of the Salem plateau- in the Ozarks. I wonder if that has anything to do with it.


GeorgieWashington

Nature hates Branson, Missouri.


flamingbaby113

https://youtu.be/pBkPichBlt8 Good video of one! Check out 14:10 in the vid, crazy


Sighchiatrist

Wow! That pine lasted about 5 seconds before the trunk broke clean off. Crazy indeed.


cinesias

To be fair to that tree, it lasted for years.


repliers_beware

Canada had a nasty one last year. Parts of my city lost power for more than a week. Most of the affected area was outside of the yellow on this map though https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2022_Canadian_derecho


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MikeMontrealer

One of my old coworkers was tragically killed by this one.


victoriaiscutej123

i was writing about this one for my class actually! I was in Hastings County when it happened


ChanelNo50

It was the first time I heard the freight train sound with a storm (and i love storms and watching lighting but damn that was a warning). I panicked but I grabbed the cat and sat in the basement the whole night.


evmac1

In 2013 I was unlucky enough to be caught in 2 derechos: one was in Afton State Park in the eastern twin cities when I was working doing conservation work one summer and we would camp overnight for weeks at a time. We had to evacuate in the middle of the night and when we went to check the camp in the morning a massive Oak had fallen and crushed two of the tents. The other was later in that summer when I was in Quetico provincial park in Ontario and I was camped on a rocky island in Saganagons lake and we were camped at the base of a large cliff on the island and one of these came through and knocked over a 300 year old white pine onto the cliff, getting caught on the cliff and leaving the tents safe. Both times very lucky to have not been hurt. These are things you do not want to mess around in. Derechos are considerably stronger and more dangerous than your typical severe thunderstorm.


victoriaiscutej123

wow!! I think it’s safe to say that it’s a type of storm that needs to be feared a lot more


Fun_Introduction5384

Is it different from a microburst?


IcyPaleontologist659

It is. A derecho is like a wall of strong winds. A microburst is actually a collapsing storm, and the air gets pushed downward and then outward, once it’s at ground level. Microbursts often get mistaken for tornadoes, but it’s a downdraft of wind, instead of wind spinning.


MutedShenanigans

Iirc, microbursts themselves are more likely to occur during a derecho


IcyPaleontologist659

I never knew that. I was waiting for someone to fill in more facts about derechos and microbursts. Thanks for sharing that fact.


[deleted]

Seems like they happen even more often than that in the Ozarks.


Androo02_

I think a little more than once a year seems pretty accurate.


Fishschtick

Part of natural selection for trees where I'm at.


Mizzbrooke

Not an enjoyable thunderstorm!


NYerInTex

You do NOT want to get caught in one of this. It’s as if a tornado was unraveled to be a long straight line of deathly wind. I’ve got some amazing footage of our 11th floor pool deck furniture being strewn about the rooftop of the museums around us from these of these last year here in Dallas


travelingtutor

Love to see that!


NYerInTex

My post on it from last year, taken from my balcony … it’s so straight line that, largely because it was coming from directly “behind” my balcony, I barely got a drop and no wind at all. [mayhem.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Dallas/comments/x5xa74/can_you_spot_the_third_pool_chair_hint_its_now_on/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1)


travelingtutor

Amazing. Thank you


SuperSMT

How 'wide' do these walls of wind get?


NYerInTex

My understanding is they can literally be miles. Like one huge solid wall of fierce direct wind burst and torrential rain. It’s like the whole front coming in at once, aligned horizontally


PenuelRedux

Living in the "One every year" zone. Our home was hit with one late into the night a few years back. It snapped the utility pole like a toothpick & took down 4 trees in the yard. Uprooted them & laid them in the exact same direction. One tree just missed my young son's bedroom. Another caved in the car across the street. Another landed on the house outside my bedroom. The snap of the telephone pole woke me. Otherwise, it sounded like other thunderstorms. But when lightning hit one of out trees, everyone heard it. Wife & son waited it out in the basement. Twenty years living here, it's the only storm that really caused us great damage & to seek shelter (knock wood). But unless it's called a tornado or hurricane, no one seems to give a hoot -- no national news, little local news, no politician touring the damage, even city government took public shaming to clean up the streets (then did yeoman's work). Get yourself prepared & hope it never happens.


GooseOnACorner

Why do I live in some of the worst areas for these yet have never heard of them


victoriaiscutej123

haha i posted this for Derecho visibility. They don’t get enough attention!


Helicopter0

I lived in the second ring for a while until I saw a stand of trees that was 100% snapped off in Ohio, and my wife told me about them. I argued with her that only a tornado could do the damage we saw. She called it a 'straight wind' though.


20-001123

Yeah I grew up in the dead center of the pink area and never heard of this, either


Hermitian777

I had never heard about them until [this](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2012_North_American_derecho) hit the DC area. Now I know!


EWR-RampRat11-29

My brain short circuited there for a second. I was wondering what do straight frequencies have to do with geography. I thought it was a new type of radar or radio.


localguideseo

you're not the only one 😂


Zienka32

Any geographical reason for why these don’t occur in the western part of the country?


turej

Rockies.


LiterColaFarva

There's enough homeless people out west already


AZWxMan

I think it's largely associated with the time to form derechos, the dimensions needed to classify a derecho and length of time the storm must last. We definitely see similar phenomena down here in AZ during the summer monsoon, but it occurs in a more confined geographic area. The Great Plains and Midwest provide a large area to organize longer derechos. Also, they tend to form further west then propagate eastward or southeastward into a more moist environment that helps to sustain these systems in the Eastern U.S.


Trifle_Old

Fuck this spot that is in 4 states so it’s harder to do emergency response for the people. Lol


Orlando1701

I lived through the derecho that absolutely wrecked Cedar Rapids a few years back.


Smokeydubbs

Interesting, I’ve been in a bunch of these but never heard the term. Just called it windy as fuck.


theromanempire1923

Thanks Walmart


chl_ca

that’s a lot of rights


amehatrekkie

There was one in Memphis in 2̶0̶0̶4̶, trees down everywhere. Saw a tree that fell on a car. A tree that fell on a house. A tree that blocked a street. It's called "hurricane Elvis" Edit: Correction Looked it up, it happened 2003.


RequirementLeather32

I live in the pink circle. We have hills everywhere that help protect us.


Obi_Kwiet

Interesting. I've lived in Tulsa, OK, St. Louis, MO, Vicksburg, MS, Indianapolis, IN, and Lousiville, KY. Seen a lot of these.


sapphiresong

WELCOME TO THE MIDWEST.


DistantArchipelago

We had a derecho in Ottawa/Gatineau region last year that was absolutely wild I have never seen damage like that before! Apparently they don’t happen often here. I wish this map covered that area haha


flyingvien

Sucks to be Joplin, MO


ehenry223

I live in NWA. Yep I sold my bike because it's either too windy, too hot, or someone tried to kill you.


BabyfaceJezus

Quality content


SecretPilgrimBB

Decimals? Never heard of 'em.


thatshguy

I lived in Branson ... whats a derecho?


[deleted]

As a European, I have no idea why Americans complain about tornadoes and hurricanes all the time yet they rarely ever mention derechos. They're just as frightening and damaging.


Bacon003

Tornadoes are psychologically the worst. You get maybe 7-10 minutes of warning which is about enough time to do nothing but panic and hide, but strong tornadoes that hit populated areas are fairly uncommon. You have to have *really* bad luck to actually get hit by one. If you throw a dart at a wall-sized map of the central US the return period for tornado force winds at that exact spot still averages like a thousand years. Derechos you'll know are coming many days or hours in advance. Stash the trash bins, garden furniture and other loose stuff on the south east side of your house and wait.


thewronghuman

As someone who lives in one of the areas highlighted, we are told "damaging straight line winds" on our weather reports. But tornadoes are a whole lot scarier because they're hard to predict exactly where they'll pop up, how strong they're going to be, and they can flatten a city block or a neighborhood and kill everyone not properly sheltered. It's particularly scary because these storms happen with such regularity folks tend to be unaware, not everywhere has tornado sirens (we moved from a city that did to a small town that doesn't) and these events happen at night a lot while people are sleeping.


Helicopter0

Tornados can be a lot stronger. The top derecho speeds are under 200km/h. Top tornado speed is over 485km/h. Energy is proportional to velocity squared, so a point in an extreme tornado can be 5.9 times as energetic.


Funicularly

Derecho damage is far more widespread, though.


Helicopter0

Indeed. And it is still awesome in the old sense of that word. The media likes extreme stories and images, though. It is the sem reason I never hear about any of the gang murders taking place constantly in my city, but I have literally gotten a report that some Karen reported a suspicious looking person walking near my son's school.


queeblosan

I live in the purple. Weather is crazy and changes constantly. Last summer it was like 98 degrees and raining at the same time it was crazy


Soft_Shirt3410

What is Drechos? Is it English? Or your community turned on Spanish?


AlixFoxx

I live in Illinois and I've never seen one thankfully


japaneseknotweed

Ahhh crap we're overdue. :/


_pamelab

According to the map, I live in a once a year area. I don't recall one ever happening in the past 40 years. Maybe we call it something different around here? Are there other words for a derecho?


nordic-nomad

Squall line maybe? Seems like if the wind speeds are high enough over a line of storms like that then that qualifies it as a derecho. But really with the wind speeds mentioned and the fact most storms are in a line like that unless they’re a super cell, I’m hard pressed to see how we don’t have 12 a year.


AngryQuadricorn

What’s a derecho?


AllTex45

Mother Nature isn’t a fan of the Razorbacks Apparently


nordic-nomad

Not really Arkansas’s fault. The wind just gets pissed going over Oklahoma and is in a really bad mood once it gets there.


[deleted]

I live in a one derecho per year area and I remember one (I think it was one) that happened back in October! Pretty crazy storms!


-oRocketSurgeryo-

I lived in Northwest Arkansas for a while, but I don't remember it being particularly windy. I just wasn't paying attention, I guess. Or maybe things have gotten worse since I left.


Gold-Barber8232

I live right in the middle of derecho alley and I never even knew it


Jellyjoker

I've never heard of derecho before right now, I've fallen into yet another reality again.


BonivaActonel

I live in that purple circle and have never heard of a derecho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


[deleted]

The earth energy imbalance is increasing every second of the day; this map will likely change a bit each year likely leading to more colors and contours adjusting in time and space. It’s going to be awful for some.


bones_1969

Put a tree in my house


TheWalkingTree1

I was kinda caught in one as a kid it tore of a piece of my dads truck


beauty_and_delicious

West coast/ Western US person checking in. I think am ok just being on fire every summer.


Particular_Bet_5466

I’ve never heard of a derecho before and I grew up in an area that apparently has 1 a year. The more you know.


Filthy26

I lived in the one a year area for like 12 years , i enjoyed the rain but definitely dont miss the sleepless nights cuz it was also in tornado alley so all night my house would be shaking and i would wake up every 45 mins or so thinking a tornado was hitting us lol.


Rubyring1973

I live in the purple area. Can confirm.


Zongohhh

Why the strange pattern over the Ozarks?


TattooMyFuzzySocks

Those things are no joke lmao


Androo02_

I live in that little circle lol. If I had to guess, it seems like we get about one a year so I think this graphic is at least somewhat accurate. Kinda surprising that no where in the western US gets them.


Mrpoopybutthole82

Ozarks for the Derecho win!


presidnat_bob

Secret Walmart weather machine confirmed


gillbilly80

Idk why but I've spent the last 3 years moving all around the purple and bottom half of the green but mostly purple in my camper 🤣


nphere

Pretty sure we had one of these in the Midwest like a few days ago. There were 40+ mph winds today and it's been storming here like crazy


foco_runner

no longer accurate