I've been following impacts of this derecho through email and social networks the past few days. The first sentence in the Earth Observatory article below really helped knit all the stories I've been hearing into a larger picture of this systemic awesome event.
Photo courtesy Kevin Gould / NOAA. Caption by Michon Scott.
On June 29, 2012, a windstorm started in northwestern Indiana, and traveled roughly 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) eastward to the Atlantic Ocean. Embarking on a roughly 10-hour journey, the fast-moving storm toppled trees, downed power lines and left more than a million residents without power in the District of Columbia alone.
Read the whole story at earthobservatory.nasa.gov
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