Washington DC’s derecho – not something new | Watts Up With That?

Well I call B.S. on that. They’ve been known over a century, and around far longer than that. Wikipedia says that Derecho comes from the Spanish word for “straight”.The word was first used in the American Meteorological Journal in 1888 by Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs in a paper describing the phenomenon and based on a significant derecho event that crossed Iowa on 31 July 1877.

Twitter / timothypmurphy: Anyone seen a good explana

[retweeted by climate hoax promoter Michael Mann] Anyone seen a good explanation for how climate scientists cooked up that storm last night? Had to have been a hoax, no?

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