{"id":58797,"date":"2021-07-28T12:46:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58797"},"modified":"2021-07-28T12:46:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T17:46:06","slug":"corn-belt-at-risk-for-damaging-derecho-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58797","title":{"rendered":"Corn Belt At Risk For &#8216;Damaging Derecho&#8217; Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__11o5_\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__2cUI6\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/weather\/corn-belt-risk-damaging-derecho\">Corn Belt At Risk For &#8216;Damaging Derecho&#8217; Storms<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__38L44\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__2clki NodeBody_container__1M6aJ\">\n<p>A derecho, otherwise known as a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm, is expected to traverse parts of the Midwest Wednesday night and early Thursday, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/weather.com\/storms\/severe\/news\/2021-07-27-severe-threat-midwest-derecho-possible-0\">The Weather Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds, tornadoes, torrential rains, and flash floods. This one could wreak havoc in the areas shaded in purple below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-07-28_07-29-14.png?itok=lkZg1jlW\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2021-07-28_07-29-14.png?itok=lkZg1jlW\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2021-07-28_07-29-14.png?itok=lkZg1jlW\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"ef7834a2-4864-4350-97cb-573feaceafb0\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s important to note is that this derecho is sweeping across the corn belt.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3NwYWNlX2NhcmQiOnsiYnVja2V0Ijoib2ZmIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1420388749406576640&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fweather%2Fcorn-belt-risk-damaging-derecho&amp;sessionId=a2f5b59d651228cea7a501a7596e9764b5930601&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1420388749406576640\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Last year, a derecho rolled through Iowa and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/commodities\/drought-windstorm-plunge-iowas-corn-industry-chaos\">damaged<\/a>\u00a0about 14 million crop acres, or about 57% of the state&#8217;s farms.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Across the corn belt, crops have already been damaged by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/commodities\/dry-corn-belt-ahead-pollination-may-spell-disaster-farmers\">sweltering<\/a>\u00a0heat and a persisting megadrought. This could weaken the root system and make corn more susceptible to snap under wind pressure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corn Belt At Risk For &#8216;Damaging Derecho&#8217; Storms A derecho, otherwise known as a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm, is expected to traverse parts of the Midwest Wednesday night and early Thursday, according to\u00a0The Weather Channel. Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds, tornadoes, torrential rains, and flash floods. This one could wreak havoc in the areas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[31547,288,7460,31546,4318],"class_list":["post-58797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-derecho-storms","tag-extreme-weather","tag-high-winds","tag-us-corn-belt","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58798,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58797\/revisions\/58798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}