A derecho, pronounced deh-REY-cho, is a long-lived, fast-moving thunderstorm

The date was May 21st, 2022, Uxbridge.

Two weeks later we visited a friend and saw the damage to a 20m long - once tall, Maple.

Note the person in the lower right corner of the picture.

Just wind:

Framed?

So many memories -

This Saturday's visit had an echo of the wind storm.

A kind of post script:

"So far, field crews with the Northern Tornadoes Project have identified at least one EF2 tornado, which hit Uxbridge, Ont., with wind speeds of up to 195 km/h."

 https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/confirmed-uxbridge-hit-by-195-km-h-tornado-embedded-in-a-derecho

 https://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/catastrophes/was-derecho-storm-damage-caused-by-climate-change-1004221681/

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/05/22/weather-ontario-storm/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-tornado-touched-down-in-uxbridge-during-weekend-storm-that-swept/

Traveling along the road to Greenwood and in Greenwood itself we saw more evidence of damage caused by that brief storm.

 

wobbly old 

or

wizened odd