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"Bomb Cyclone"

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So apparently we are experiencing a "Bomb Cyclone"


I am not sure which is dumber by the idiots at the weather channel.

Made up words like "Bomb Cyclone"

or naming winter storms.


Idiots. That is all
 
So apparently we are experiencing a "Bomb Cyclone"


I am not sure which is dumber by the idiots at the weather channel.

Made up words like "Bomb Cyclone"

or naming winter storms.


Idiots. That is all

The term "Bombogenesis" is being tossed around like rice at a wedding, and it's a word no one has heard or spoken outside a meteorology classroom until yesterday. It's just another Snowmageddon, storm-of-the-century-of-the-month, we're mostly used to it out here. Even TheWeatherChannel has to sell adds though, I guess they're just trying to make weather exciting.

With the temperatures we've been having, I'm surprised "Polar Vortex" hasn't become a buzz phrase again.
 
Stupid name, but the view from my window suggests it is nonetheless accurate.
 
Whatever it's called, it's c-c-c-cold here...24...real feel like 6 with 24 MPH winds...brrrrrr...
 
So apparently we are experiencing a "Bomb Cyclone"

I am not sure which is dumber by the idiots at the weather channel.

Made up words like "Bomb Cyclone"

or naming winter storms.

Idiots. That is all

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bombogenesis.html

Bombogenesis, a popular term used by meteorologists, occurs when a midlatitude cyclone rapidly intensifies, dropping at least 24 millibars over 24 hours. A millibar measures atmospheric pressure. This can happen when a cold air mass collides with a warm air mass, such as air over warm ocean waters. The formation of this rapidly strengthening weather system is a process called bombogenesis, which creates what is known as a bomb cyclone.

Idiots using correct terminology. Don't they know us New Englanders refer to it as a Coldy McFrosty.
 
Whatever it's called, it's c-c-c-cold here...24...real feel like 6 with 24 MPH winds...brrrrrr...

I see you're in the south. My husband said it has snowed in Florida and other states that aren't used to snow.
 
So apparently we are experiencing a "Bomb Cyclone"


Made up words like "Bomb Cyclone"

or naming winter storms.


Idiots. That is all


"The vorpal storm went snicker-snack"

With apologies to Lewis Carroll who had this climate nonsense completely figured out
Jabberwocky:

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand;
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

 
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I have a better name.
C.S.I.W.
Cold Snow Ice Wind.
 
It's usually just called a nor' ester.

Supposed to get 12-18 inches here by tomorrow morning, so I just call it a pain in the ass.
 
So apparently we are experiencing a "Bomb Cyclone"


I am not sure which is dumber by the idiots at the weather channel.

Made up words like "Bomb Cyclone"

or naming winter storms.


Idiots. That is all

Back when I lived in upstate NY we had bomb cyclones from time to time. We called them "snow storms" or, in extreme circumstances, "really bad snow storms". Granted, they weren't as much fun as a bomb cyclone sounds but they got the job done.
 
Back when I lived in upstate NY we had bomb cyclones from time to time. We called them "snow storms" or, in extreme circumstances, "really bad snow storms". Granted, they weren't as much fun as a bomb cyclone sounds but they got the job done.

Not to mention they actually give some hint as to what the hell you're talking about.

"Bomb cyclone" is just meaningless crap.
 
The term "Bombogenesis" is being tossed around like rice at a wedding, and it's a word no one has heard or spoken outside a meteorology classroom until yesterday. It's just another Snowmageddon, storm-of-the-century-of-the-month, we're mostly used to it out here. Even TheWeatherChannel has to sell adds though, I guess they're just trying to make weather exciting.

With the temperatures we've been having, I'm surprised "Polar Vortex" hasn't become a buzz phrase again.

PV is next
 
Whatever it's called, it's c-c-c-cold here...24...real feel like 6 with 24 MPH winds...brrrrrr...

Thank God for Global Warming, or it would really be cold!
 
It's usually just called a nor' ester.

Supposed to get 12-18 inches here by tomorrow morning, so I just call it a pain in the ass.

No sir it is not usually called a nor' easter. Bombogenesis refers to the rate and depth of falling barometric pressure in an extratropical cyclone...It has nothing to do with the type of precipitation or the wind direction at a given location...

This tread represents another mocking of science which is killing our nation's leadership capacity in the sciences..
 
No sir it is not usually called a nor' easter. Bombogenesis refers to the rate and depth of falling barometric pressure in an extratropical cyclone...It has nothing to do with the type of precipitation or the wind direction at a given location...

This tread represents another mocking of science which is killing our nation's leadership capacity in the sciences..

I never claimed the term I used was the correct scientific name.

You really have to make a huge extrapolation and some very broad assumptions about me, to assume I'm anti-science just because I used a casual term for a bad winter storm.

Now bend over Sir, and slowly pull that thing out of your backside.
 
I never claimed the term I used was the correct scientific name.

You really have to make a huge extrapolation and some very broad assumptions about me, to assume I'm anti-science just because I used a casual term for a bad winter storm.

Now bend over Sir, and slowly pull that thing out of your backside.

No assumption concerning you was made...Just correcting an inaccurate claim you presented....not every northeaster is a bomb cyclone, and not every bombing cyclone is a nor' easter.

So when you said "It's usually just called a nor' ester.", that's not the case. That storm was of a specific class. So in New England it was sort of a northeaster (not really because the wind was more out of the north than northeast) but who's to quibble. It also was a bombing cyclone...because of the rate at which it intensified which is measured in terms of falling atmospheric pressure...

Sorry if I offended you somehow. I didn't say you were anti-science, I said the thread represented another case of it.
 
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