Jeez, I love Colorado’s wild and wacky weather! Not only is there new snow in June – see pic below and Gazette article here – but also a phenomenon I never knew existed: “derecho.” That’s today’s WOTD, also something I experienced first hand at 30,000 feet flying across Utah and Colorado’s Western Slope last weekend. See DP article, here, excerpt below.
Saturday’s weather event was likely Colorado’s first-ever “derecho” on record… A derecho is a wide and long-lived line of damage-producing severe thunderstorms. They’re far more common in the eastern half of the country. While individual thunderstorms produce damage all the time in Colorado, it’s rare to get a long, nearly uniform line of damaging storms like the one the Denver area saw Saturday afternoon.
I can dig it. We had turbulence nearly all the way from the Sierras to the Front Range on Saturday. At times it felt like those 100 mph tail winds were literally picking up our Airbus-320 and throwing it around. Yikes!
Last but not least, see wild and wacky radar images, here.
Not to worry: Forecast is for it to be in the 90’s by Sunday.