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a storm that skips the spinning and just runs you over in a straight line
means A derecho is a widespread, long-lived windstorm associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms, producing destructive straight-line winds over hundreds of miles.
from From Spanish 'derecho,' meaning 'straight' or 'direct' (also 'right,' as in the direction). The term was deliberately borrowed into meteorology in the late 19th century by physicist Gustavus Hinrichs, who coined it to contrast these straight-line wind events with the twisting Spanish-derived 'tornado.' The Spanish word itself descends from Latin 'directus,' past participle of 'dirigere,' to set straight or direct — the same root that gives English 'direct' and 'erect.'
- name origin
- Spanish for straight, coined in 1888 Iowa
- size rule
- damage must span 240 miles to qualify
- wind speed
- gusts routinely exceed 100 miles per hour
- 2012 monster
- left millions powerless across a thousand-mile path
- telltale shape
- radar shows a bowing line racing forward
humboldt current — cold ocean current off peru and chile, ~27°s to 4°s, creates extreme weather patterns