re: Friday Severe Weather Threat

Will it be enough to cancel kids' baseball practice tonight at 7:30? I'll hang up and listen.

Turns into a sail with those winds.

Just took a look outside, glad I don't have a Friday class.

ETA: fatboy, that depends on how well the practice field drains. It should clear up a bit after lunch.

insert "it's happening" gif... cuz.. it's happening...

Yea because you have actual training in meteorology to tell us these things

There's a part of me that really misses Thunderstorms up here since I moved away from the South years ago.

Then there's the nope, nope, nope reaction to looking at that stuff on radar.

This is pissing me off I cant think of the name...

what do you call those powerful, damaging winds that blow straight downward. It starts with a D I think

So, is the weather over? That fricking sucked.

A derecho is a widespread and long-lived windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms. They can produce significant damage to property and pose a serious threat life, primarily by downburst winds. To be classified as a derecho, the path length of the storm has to be at least 280 miles long. Widths may vary from 50-300 miles. Derechos are usually not associated with a cold front, but a stationary front. They occur mostly in July, but can occur at anytime during the spring and summer.