Storms Are Having A Field Day

[Robert]

Earliest seventh name storm, Gonzalo, makes earliest appearance and at the same time, a second storm is forming in the Gulf Of Mexico, where Gonzalo might end up. Normally multiple storms in the same place will steal the energy from each other.

[Clare]

I had not heard of a derecho previously.

https://www.ecowatch.com/derecho-stor...
"A powerful series of thunderstorms roared across the Midwest on Monday, downing trees, damaging structures and knocking out power to more than a million people.

The storms, which produced winds of more than 100 miles per hour, formed a phenomenon known as a derecho, a long-lasting, far-spreading windstorm caused by a series of thunderstorms, according to the Storm Prediction Center (SPC).

"This is our version of a hurricane," Northern Illinois University meteorology professor Victor Gensini told The Associated Press."

https://apnews.com/e7bfc5351814eb111f...

[Robert]

They had disappeared for awhile, I was thinking climate conditions had made it harder for them to form. That maybe the length of the storm front lines of the new bigger storm patterns was dissipating the energy in the forward bulge so it couldn't form. Bigger storm front lengths with bigger derechos would be very bad. But they seem to be making a comeback so perhaps there is another factor that controls their formation.

[Clare]

Looking at Ireland's worst storm, the Night of the Big Wind. And why this Late Little Ice Age storm was driven by the North Atlantic. Which means yes, there'll be more.
We've just had Storm Ellen which was fed by a Hurricane. The south and west, on the Atlantic got hit particularly hard.


https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2020/02...

Storm Ellen:
https://www.rte.ie/news/weather/2020/...

[Robert]

It looks like a lot more storms are remaining intact instead of falling apart as they cross Atlantic after traveling up the North American coast.