We had some violent weather once and claimed it was a derecho. What is it? This violent weather had happened over 10 yrs ago. That was a heck of a day I remember. All I remember it was extremely hot the day before it was thunderstormy and stuff and alot of people had power outages. The bad weather had happened early morning.
2006-08-01 08:30:15 · 4 answers · asked by Evey 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Weather
A derecho is a widespread and long-lived, violent convectively induced windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms usually taking the form of a bow echo. Derechos are usually not associated with a cold front, but a stationary front. A warm weather phenomenon, derechos occur mostly in late spring to summer, especially July, but can occur at any time of the year and occur as frequently at night as in the daylight hours.
2006-08-01 08:45:50 · answer #1 · answered by ™ 2 · 10⤊ 1⤋
A derecho is a long line of storm making possibly winds up to and above 100 M.P.H. It can last a long time and can make lots of damage.
2006-08-01 15:28:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a derecho is a series of straight line wind
events that may damage large areas.
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2006-08-01 11:28:12 · answer #3 · answered by weatherman123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/derechofacts.htm
2006-08-01 17:04:01 · answer #4 · answered by ggeonerdd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋