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Phrases/terms that need to be retired immediately (2 Viewers)
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Snoopy
Footballguy
Was my name-o
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Rock star.
Phil Elliott
Footballguy
Derecho
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
Nope. It is the correct term for this phenomenon.
Phil Elliott
Footballguy
We will probably just agree to disagree. I never heard of it until this week and it looks like NWS defined it in 2020.
The official name of "Post-it Notes" or sticky notes is "Repositionable Notes" but I don't hear any one call them that.
IvanKaramazov
Footballguy
We had one of these a few years back. It seems like the kind of phenomenon that should have a name associated with it. It's not a thunderstorm and not a tornado - it has features in common with those, but it's not the same as either. This isn't as stupid as, say, naming winter storms.
Drunken knight
Footballguy
fire is played out
AAABatteries
Footballguy
Ate that.
From what I can gather it means somebody did a really good job at something or dominated at an activity.
From what I can gather it means somebody did a really good job at something or dominated at an activity.
mr. furley
Footballguy
my 15 year old dropped this on me a few weeks ago. first time i truly felt out of touch with the kids.
nirad3
Footballguy
Skibidi!
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I had to look that up. Good lord, no.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
I looked it up and am completely clueless.
3C's
Footballguy
What is the origin of the term "derecho?"
The word "derecho" was coined by Dr. Gustavus Hinrichs, a physics professor at the University of Iowa, in a paper published in the American Meteorological Journal in 1888. "Derecho" is a Spanish word meaning "direct" or "straight ahead;" Hinrichs coined it to distinguish straight-line wind damage from that produced by tornadoes. While the term was used in the meteorological community for a short time during the late nineteenth century, it disappeared from use for nearly 100 years until resurrected by severe weather meteorologists in the mid-1980s.
Mrs. Rannous
Footballguy
I've lived in Houston for fifty years, and I'd never seen anything like that here before. It was impressive to watch it in real time on radar. It needs its own name. The tornado that was on the ground looked very different.
3C's
Footballguy
Yeah, the history of the term is that an Army Corps guy was researching severe storms and calling everything tornadoes and it caused a "dispute" with this professor/meteorology guys, so Hinrichs used derecho to differentiate straight line versus rotating winds.
Phil Elliott
Footballguy
I have a daughter that lives in Houston and agree it was a crazy storm.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Longer than that. 2012 derecho was crazy here. I remember Port City Brewing releasing a “Derecho Common” beer after that derecho killed the power for days and beer got too warm during fermentation for the pilsner they were making.
Snoopy
Footballguy
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fatness
Footballguy
Derecho damage in a nearby location in August of last year.
Video of aftermath. Those poles are over 100 feet tall, people had to be rescued from their cars due to live wires and rain, and it took days to reopen that highway.
Video right in the middle of it happening.
Photos.
Video of aftermath. Those poles are over 100 feet tall, people had to be rescued from their cars due to live wires and rain, and it took days to reopen that highway.
Video right in the middle of it happening.
Photos.
