Bomb Cyclone
So...
There's this new phrase in weather forecasting here in the USA. It's like two days old now. The phrase is "bomb cyclone" and it's been all over the news, still is today! As of right now it doesn't even come up as a listed term in Wikipedia although I did find something about it commonly being used in Japan. Two winters ago the weather guys and gals were all talking about the "polar vortex". Remember that?
I guess that wasn't scary enough.
Click this link to see how Popular Science introduces this new term.
The term bomb cyclone was used this week to describe winter storm Grayson. A storm like this has always been known in these parts as a nor'easter. I'm thinking with global warming now being openly challenged as a scientific and meteorological reality by increasing numbers of rational people, a good frightening term like bomb cyclone will keep the irrational herds sufficiently in line. The past several years it has seemed to me like the weather guys and gals have been coming up with more and more ways to keep us terrified of Mother Nature's wrath so why not have bombs now, eh?
That said, winter storm Grayson was quite a storm. Wednesday morning (January 3, 2018) the low pressure was centered over southern Florida bringing snow as far south as northern Florida. By Thursday evening the storm was fully formed with the low pressure center over the Gulf of Maine. That's faster than I can drive on I-95! Here in the Maine highlands we had over a foot of wind-driven powder snow by Friday morning (today). The temperature dropped all day and is supposed to plummet for the remainder of the weekend with strong northwest winds still being driven by the westerly side of this intense low pressure center as it slowly moves away to the northeast.
To me this was a classic nor'easter. Let's hope that saner minds prevail in the future and "bomb cyclone" becomes just another relic of global warming paranoia.
There's this new phrase in weather forecasting here in the USA. It's like two days old now. The phrase is "bomb cyclone" and it's been all over the news, still is today! As of right now it doesn't even come up as a listed term in Wikipedia although I did find something about it commonly being used in Japan. Two winters ago the weather guys and gals were all talking about the "polar vortex". Remember that?
I guess that wasn't scary enough.
Click this link to see how Popular Science introduces this new term.
The term bomb cyclone was used this week to describe winter storm Grayson. A storm like this has always been known in these parts as a nor'easter. I'm thinking with global warming now being openly challenged as a scientific and meteorological reality by increasing numbers of rational people, a good frightening term like bomb cyclone will keep the irrational herds sufficiently in line. The past several years it has seemed to me like the weather guys and gals have been coming up with more and more ways to keep us terrified of Mother Nature's wrath so why not have bombs now, eh?
That said, winter storm Grayson was quite a storm. Wednesday morning (January 3, 2018) the low pressure was centered over southern Florida bringing snow as far south as northern Florida. By Thursday evening the storm was fully formed with the low pressure center over the Gulf of Maine. That's faster than I can drive on I-95! Here in the Maine highlands we had over a foot of wind-driven powder snow by Friday morning (today). The temperature dropped all day and is supposed to plummet for the remainder of the weekend with strong northwest winds still being driven by the westerly side of this intense low pressure center as it slowly moves away to the northeast.
To me this was a classic nor'easter. Let's hope that saner minds prevail in the future and "bomb cyclone" becomes just another relic of global warming paranoia.
posted by Bill | 7:41 PM
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