A gigantic line of powerful thunderstorms could affect one in five Americans on Wednesday as it rumbles from Iowa to Maryland packing hail, lightning and tree-toppling winds.What is a derecho? | Maps: ...

WEST MICHIGAN (May 31, 2014) — For those of us that remember the date…May 31, 1998 marked a widespread severe weather wind event, especially along the immediate lakeshore. It was the Southern Great ...

CRANSTON, R.I. (WJAR) — The wind damage and severe thunderstorms on Oct. 7 were part of a rare weather event here in Southern New England: a derecho, and it caused widespread wind damage throughout ...

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It has been 20 years since one of our most memorable weather events: the July 13th Derecho. Radar image of the July 13, 2024 derecho as it moved across Kentuckiana The National Weather Service in ...

A destructive event called a derecho is developing in the northern Plains. FOX Weather said Tuesday that the cluster of thunderstorms – often described as an inland hurricane – will impact the area, ...

WASHINGTON — Severe weather headed for central and Southeastern parts of the U.S. could cause a rare weather event called a derecho. The term for the widespread wind event derives from the Spanish ...

During the first half of 2023 alone, there were over 7,000 reports of severe-caliber thunderstorm winds or associated damage, according to the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center. These ...

A line of fierce storms known as a derecho is threatening to move east from the upper Midwest through the mid-Atlantic states, bringing large hail and tree-breaking winds to a wide swath of the nation ...

It's a popular term in meteorology for a storm event. But not every bad storm that passes through is a derecho. There are actually distinct characteristics that classify a weather event as a derecho.

The weather event known as a derecho is a widespread summer storm capable of traveling thousands of miles with hurricane-force winds of up to 100 mph. A Spanish word, derecho (deh-ray’-cho) is the ...