[KYHAM] Interesting new weather term for spotters...

[Pat Spencer, KD4PWL]

As a long time weather spotter, I have done a decent amount of reading on 
weather phenomena.  While looking at the Louisville NWS site this evening 
for a summary of last night's storm reports and ran across a new 
term.  "Derecho" was a new one on me and I thought I would share it.  I 
will have to say that this is the first time I recall encountering such a 
period of sustained winds.

Complete information is available at: 
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/derechofacts but the definition of 
the term is "A derecho (pronounced similar to "day-RAY-cho" in English ) is 
a widespread and long lived windstorm that is associated with a band of 
rapidly moving showers or thunderstorms."  The information contained in the 
linked page is very interesting and worth a read if you are an amateur 
radio spotter.

Storm reports received from the Louisville NWS is listed at 
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lmk/damage_surveys/.

Take care all, 73,
Pat, KD4PWL