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Thread #132499   Message #4068649
Posted By: leeneia
17-Aug-20 - 01:22 PM
Thread Name: BS: Language Pet Peeves
Subject: RE: BS: Language Pet Peeves
You forgot derecho, tornado, heat wave and haboob.

I was on the fringe of a derecho last week - the weather map showed a cone laid on its side, and inside the cone were tiny green dots, each one a thunderstorm. I think there were 524 in all. The cone extended from Nebraska to Indiana at the time I looked, and places had winds of 80 mph.

My sister called me from Wisconsin, upset and on-edge, just needing somebody to talk to, because she had non-stop thunder for an hour.
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Spellcheck in out-of-date. It doesn't like derecho or haboob.