© Jim Reed, CorbisA deadly derecho strikes central Kansas in 2005.
An event that reportedly happens about once every four years, a fast and furious thunderstorm formed west of Chicago at about 11 a.m. and then raced at speeds upwards of 60 mph in a straight line across Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. and out over the Atlantic Ocean by midnight, according to news reports.
Meteorologists call this kind of straight-lined fast moving thunderstorm a derecho. And this Friday's derecho already has its own wiki page.
Like other thunderstoms, derechos generate power from convective wind gusts formed between pressure systems. But unlike other storms, derechos maintain a forward motion, basically feeding off the interface between the systems in a race that moves the storm at upwards of 50 mph for distances of hundreds of miles.
© Andrew Shurtleff, CorbisDowned power lines on Hillsboro Lane left residents without power Sunday in Crozet, Va.
The record-setting temperatures on Friday clashed with the weather systems over Chicago and the storms that emerged grew in power forming a derecho that the upper-level winds continued push forward as the storm chewed its way through the heat wave.
Weather derivatives .(Chemtrails Geo engineering)
Monsanto is developing a drought resistant crop plant. And, will wonders never cease. As it turns out, there is extreme dryness and heat here in America's breadbasket .
Couple that with weather derivatives and it looks like one mustn't mess with Mother Nature because the consequences as we see in above article, can be dire. Indeed!