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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Bomb cyclone': US braces for explosive winter storm (Now there's a term I never heard in weather)
The US is braced for a "bomb cyclone" - a weather phenomenon which officials say will arrive during a cold snap that has already claimed at least 11 lives.
Forecasters say a severe pressure drop will lead to an explosive winter storm along the eastern US, and is already bringing snow to Florida.
The US is currently on its 10th day of frigid record-breaking low temperatures which began around Christmas.
But the predicted new storm has led meteorologists to deploy a new term.
Forecasters say a severe pressure drop will lead to an explosive winter storm along the eastern US, and is already bringing snow to Florida.
The US is currently on its 10th day of frigid record-breaking low temperatures which began around Christmas.
But the predicted new storm has led meteorologists to deploy a new term.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42544605
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'Bomb cyclone': US braces for explosive winter storm (Now there's a term I never heard in weather) (Original Post)
icymist
Jan 2018
OP
Apparently someone decided the word "blizzard" wasn't alarmist enough. n/t
PoliticAverse
Jan 2018
#3
The same someone who is far too clever to realize the word came into usage in the late 40s
LanternWaste
Jan 2018
#5
snowybirdie
(5,241 posts)1. Weather channel hype
A bad winter storm with a new "sexy" name to gin up viewership.
Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)2. "bombogenesis" has been a weather word for a while
It's defined as a storm that deepens 24millibars in 24 hours or less- "bombing out" if you will.
Very serious storm on tap, not to be taken lightly.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)3. Apparently someone decided the word "blizzard" wasn't alarmist enough. n/t
Blue_Adept
(6,402 posts)4. You realize it's not a buzzword, right?
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)5. The same someone who is far too clever to realize the word came into usage in the late 40s
The same someone who is far too clever, intelligent and well-read to realize the word came into usage in the late 40s by the Bergen School of Meteorology?
Or someone else who makes simplistic allegations to appear clever?
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)6. Looks like someone named "Fred Sanders" is to blame...
In the 1940s, some meteorologists began informally calling some big coastal storms "bombs" because they develop "with a ferocity we rarely, if ever, see over land," said Fred Sanders, a retired MIT professor, who brought the term into common usage by describing such storms in a 1980 article in the journal Monthly Weather Review.
Many nor'easters -- infamous big storms that wallop the East Coast -- are the product of bombs, according to meteorologist Jeff Haby.
Many nor'easters -- infamous big storms that wallop the East Coast -- are the product of bombs, according to meteorologist Jeff Haby.
I'll stick with Nor'easter blizzard.