***Official 2022 Weather Thread***
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Is this actually a derecho? I'm beginning to feel like they're just starting to call every wind storm a derecho.
I think it's defined as something like 300 mile path of damage and 60 mph plus straightline wind
My dog hasn’t slept much with fireworks over the last week. He slept in until 10:00. I let him out to go potty and grabbed his leash and he just gave me what I think was a doggy eye roll and rolled over in the rub my belly position. We are clearly not walking today. Hoping no derecho this far south.
IMO it is a combination of several things.
1. We recently had the strongest one on record hit the state's second largest city.
2. I beleive they are becoming more common...but lets stay out of the cave.
3. Data is more widely available, recorded and tracked. These types of systems have always occurred but we didn't know about it for various reasons.
1 is a big one in my book. There was a similar threat last year during Airventure. It was well forecasted and severe storms did occur. They cancelled everything after 5PM and did the best they could to give tens of thousands of people time to prepare and find shelter. The grounds never really got severe weather but a tornado did hit not too far away.
I'm 66 years old and I don't remember anything like the CR derecho. And then we had a similar event last winter. I don't understand the exact conditions that trigger these. To me it just looks like a line of pretty intense thunderstorms out in S.D. Those we have multiple times per year.
They somehow haven't canceled my 6 year old's t-ball game and I'm about to riot.
Derechos are really pretty common. It looks like there are usually at least a couple in the Midwest/Great Plains every year. But I think the 2020 derecho (which was notably large) is just what brought the word into our vocabulary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_derecho_events
I saw a FB post from Amber Alexander, she didn't mention "derecho" but did mention very high winds as a concern through NW Iowa.
Anyone who lived in Vinton 10 or so years ago already knew the derecho.
Hard to tell, I imagine it will be weakening by that point when it get's here after 9-10PM. This will be an overnight system in our area. The storms are riding a stationary front so as it wobbles so does the storms.
KidSilverhair
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I saw that bad boy coming from the air traffic control tower in Cedar Rapids. The dust the derecho kicked up on the horizon looked really, really weird … I didn’t know what it was until later. Still remember seeing dented-in grain silos from that out west along Highway 30 near Marshalltown, I think.
And of course, I got to ride out Derechopalooza 2020 in my car parked on the shoulder of Highway 30 near Belle Plaine. I’d just as soon never experience that ever again, thank you very much.