derechoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /dəˈɹeɪ.t͡ʃoʊ/

名詞

derecho (plural derechos or derechoes)

1. (meteorology, US) A windstorm characterized by strong, straight-line winds.
   • 2015, Chris J. Peterson, Jeffery B. Cannon, Christopher M. Godfrey, “5: First Steps Toward Defining the Wind Disturbance Regime in Central Hardwoods Forests”, in Cathryn H. Greenberg, Beverly S. Collins, editors, Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation, Springer, page 116:

     Combining all of the above, the Arkansas Valley, Ouachita Mountains, Interior Plateau, and Southwest Appalachian ecoregions have the greatest risk of wind damage from tornadoes and derechos, whereas weakening hurricanes are an important disturbance, especially in the Piedmont ecoregion.

   • 2016, Bill Streever, And Soon I Heard a Roaring Wind, Hachette, unnumbered page:

     Derechos have winds as powerful as those of some hurricanes and tornadoes. "Derecho" comes from the Spanish word meaning "straight."

   • 2022, Alexander Gates, Earth's Fury, Wiley, unnumbered page:

     A derecho can be as destructive as a weak to moderate tornado, but the damage is mainly the result of straight-line rather than rotating winds.
     However, tornadoes can also form along the bow of a derecho. Derechos can sometimes be recognized as a bank of ominous-looking "shelf" clouds that appear darker than normal clouds.

参照

Further reading

• derecho on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• August 2020 Midwest derecho on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

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