"Northern Lights Dazzle North America, Derecho-Free Skies"

Listeners, as we move through mid-November 2025, there have been no reports of a recent or ongoing derecho, or any widespread, long-lived, and destructive windstorm caused by a line of rapidly moving thunderstorms in the United States over the past seven days. The most notable events impacting the skies have actually not been associated with severe convective windstorms, but rather with extraordinary displays of the Northern Lights. According to the CIRA Satellite Library’s daily updates for November 12, 2025, the biggest headline in recent days has been the “Magnificent Northern Lights Over North America,” which brought vivid auroral displays visible deep into the United States, a result of strong geomagnetic activity. While these events brought wonder and not destruction, they dominated both satellite reporting and social media discussions this week.

Earlier this week, there were some localized snowfalls in regions such as the Great Smoky Mountains and the Midwest, but these weather incidents were associated with cold air outbreaks and prominent lake effect bands, not with the organized, high-wind, long-track thunderstorms described as derechos. Meteorologists and weather centers have instead been highlighting the early winter conditions and the temperature swings experienced in areas like Houston, as reported by Rolling Out, signifying changing seasonal patterns but not severe windstorms with the destructive capacity of a derecho.

A look back through the latest satellite data archives confirms this—no entry in the CIRA Satellite Library over the past week references any rights of long-lived, destructive thunderstorm wind events. Instead, documentation focuses on celestial phenomena, snowfall, lake effect bands, and some ongoing typhoon activity near Asia, but nothing in the territory of a US-based derecho.

Severe weather and derechos tend to attract considerable attention and live coverage across meteorological outlets, storm tracker accounts, and social platforms. This week, emergency management bulletins and weather news feeds have been notably quiet regarding large-scale windstorm emergencies in the US, with no circulations of damage maps, widespread power outage reports, or storm survey teams investigating swaths of flattened trees and infrastructure typical of a derecho event. Instead, user feeds and local news have been centered on dazzling auroras and the oddity of seeing such spectacular northern lights so far south.

As always, storm season is never truly over, and listeners can keep an ear out for updates should any significant wind events develop as the season transitions and weather patterns evolve. For now, North America is experiencing a pause from derechos, giving people in storm-prone areas a bit of a breather.

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