"Powerful Derecho Set to Batter Northern Plains"

Listeners, a major weather event is unfolding this week as a derecho, a violent and long-lived windstorm driven by rapidly moving thunderstorms, barrels across the Northern Plains of the United States. According to FOX Weather, NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center has warned that a derecho is likely to surge through areas of the Dakotas and Minnesota, with the threat zone centered on Monday afternoon and evening. Winds could easily exceed 80 miles per hour, making widespread wind damage and power outages a real and immediate concern.

AOL reports that this derecho is forecast to organize along the northern rim of a powerful heat dome baking the central U.S., stretching its impact from South Dakota into southwest Minnesota and northwest Iowa. Cities like Aberdeen, Watertown, and Sioux Falls are right in the path, and areas as far east as the upper Mississippi Valley, including the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro, could also get hit by damaging wind gusts, high as 75-plus miles an hour, along with large hail and even a few tornadoes. The incoming storms are expected to down trees, rip off roofs, and lead to numerous power outages, leaving thousands without electricity overnight.

FOX Weather meteorologists emphasize that a derecho is different from a typical line of storms. While a single severe thunderstorm can damage just a narrow streak of land, derechos can leave a trail of destruction hundreds of miles long and dozens of miles wide. This is only the second derecho to strike this region in recent months, following a destructive event in late June that hit North Dakota and northern Minnesota with winds over 100 miles per hour and multiple tornadoes.

To all listeners in the affected areas, it’s critical to have multiple ways to receive emergency notifications—charge your phones, keep a NOAA weather radio handy, and know where your safest shelter is located before the storms hit. Mobile and manufactured homes are particularly vulnerable, so plan to move to sturdier shelter if a warning is issued. Authorities underscore the need to act quickly when alerts are issued for severe thunderstorms or tornadoes, as winds in a derecho can be just as dangerous and destructive as those in a hurricane.

Derechos are most common in late spring and summer, but this early November event underscores the unpredictable nature of severe weather as climate patterns shift. As always, staying weather-aware and prepared can make all the difference in protecting life and property as these intense systems move through.

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