Link to the Washington Post: Capital Weather Gang blog post. The progressive radar images montage is especially illuminating and frightening.
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Date: 2012-07-01 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-01 04:29 pm (UTC)The continuous flickering lightning, with the lit-up sky looking almost rosy at times, was so freaky.
Actually, each of those parens is a snapshot of the same storm line over time. The video may make it more clear.
I'm bemused that I had never heard of a derecho before. I'm a moderate weather geek, ever since I was a kid, and working for 8 years at the American Geophysical Union (which has a big atmospheric sciences section) only exacerbated the situation.