Derechos (wind gusts from cb)

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NZstorm
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Derechos (wind gusts from cb)

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Some notes here on Derechos. We get such events in NZ occasionally,
mainly in the west, during periods of unstable disturbed westerlies.

http://spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/derechofacts
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Re: Derechos (wind gusts from cb)

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We get them all the time usually as frontal rain is finishing just before a SW change,when its Westerly it blows a Gale from the SW often at storm force then turns back to its usual westerly where its only fresh :evil:
NZstorm wrote:Some notes here on Derechos. We get such events in NZ occasionally,
mainly in the west, during periods of unstable disturbed westerlies.

http://spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/derechofacts
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Re: Derechos (wind gusts from cb)

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NZstorm wrote:Some notes here on Derechos. We get such events in NZ occasionally,
mainly in the west, during periods of unstable disturbed westerlies.

http://spc.noaa.gov/misc/AbtDerechos/derechofacts

...sorry that term is non-applicable in Christchurch. Far too settled here, unfortunately, from things like that happening here :(
We're too far east.

JohnGaul
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