[ChicagoConservative27]

Here we go again. 😬

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

“derecho”. Latest fear mongering word to frighten people. It is just a big thunderstorm with lots of rain, as has been happening since forever.

[Paladin2]

If we had more Gorebal Warning wouldn’t the hail melt?

Is there hail on Venus?

Mercury?

[al baby]

will we see Stephanie’s Abrams amble bosom?

[xoxox]

Better declare pre-emptive states of emergency with shelter-in-place orders

[V V Camp Enari 67-68]

I never, in all my years, heard of a derecho.

[Ezekiel]

The central US is bracing for what could be a potentially dangerous end to the weekend as forecasters track the threat of severe weather on Sunday, including the potential for a derecho that could sweep across portions of Kansas and Oklahoma with destructive wind gusts higher than 100 mph and baseball-sized hail.

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NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center (SPC) increased the severe weather threat on Sunday and is focusing on central Kansas, where the threat of destructive wind gusts and large hail is highest.

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Because of the threat, the SPC placed nearly 570,000 people in Kansas in a Level 4 out of 5 risk on its 5-point severe thunderstorm risk scale.

Acts 2
1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

19 May 2024, Pentecost Sunday

[Sacajaweau]

https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/derecho-climo#:~:text=Although%20derechos%20are%20extremely%20rare,occur%20in%20families%20or%20groups.

[who knows what evil?]

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was.

[Robert DeLong]

I feel sorry for them if this is true. Those straight line winds are very powerful. I wish that prediction becoming a reality on no one, especially if there is potential for baseball sized hail, yet another added level of deadly destruction to the mix. I pray it doesn't happen. First time I have heard of that term, derecho, though.

According to the National Weather Service (NWS) criterion, a derecho is classified as a band of storms that have winds of at least 25 m/s (50 kn) along the entire span of the storm front, maintained over a time span of at least six hours. Some studies add a requirement that no more than two or three hours separate any two successive wind reports. A more recent, more physically based definition of “derecho” proposes that the term be reserved for use with convective systems that not only contain unique radar-observed features such as bow echoes and mesovortices, but also for events that produce damage swaths at least 100 km (60 miles) wide and 650 km (400 miles) long.

[packagingguy]

Look out Salina, KS. There’s s strong storm just outside the city:

https://www.ventusky.com/?p=38.85;-97.79;7&l=wind-10m&t=20240520/0000

(This is wind speed)

[DesertRhino]

Dechero? Never heard that term before today.