On June 10, 2026, a wall of wind spanning 350 miles tore across Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. It snapped power poles, flipped semi-trucks, and cut electricity to half a million households. The storm was a derecho. A derecho (pronounced deh-REY-cho) is a widespread, long-lived straight-line windstorm driven by a fast-moving line of thunderstorms. NOAA’s…
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