Another instance where the breadbaskets of the U.S. are being systematically and deliberately destroyed. Food shortages and famine will be the likely outcome.
-NW

reply to Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, August 22, 2020, #263
G. M. says:
August 23, 2020 at 8:53 am

I just finished reading some articles and watching some videos about the August 10 Iowa derecho. I was stunned by the absolute freakishness of this event. The storm flattened 14 million acres of crops and caused four billion dollars in damage. (CBS News) !4 million acres is almost 22,000 square miles. Seventy percent the size of Ireland. I asked myself just what is a derecho.

Having a lifelong interest in meteorology, I looked up the term in my meteorology textbook published in 2001. No mention of the term. All the textbook said is that straight line winds of hurricane force (74 mph or greater) are rarely experienced inland. The monster storm in Iowa had winds of up to 140 mph. The terms bomb cyclone, firenado, rediculously resilient ridge and thunderstorm asthma were not in the textbook either. There was also no mention of course of flights of birds or insects covering thousands of square miles that show up on weather radar, but that nobody on the ground seems to notice.