Posted on 12/22/2022 11:46:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
Strange that all of a sudden weather patterns are trending much worse over the past few years...
metmom :" Ping to some photos of the frozen tundra in WNY." (Western New York State)
(From your post #59)
Yes the winds drive the snowfall into drifts, and also the winds have battered the shorelines, causing localized flooding all the way from Michigan to New York.
However, the threat from the Christmas Bomb Cyclone consists of high winds that even threaten power lines throughout New England, and into Maine and Canada.
Depending on the outdoor temperatures, the effect of this storm will continue to be felt into early Spring.
Currently the city of Lackawanna is asking for volunteer snowmobiles and operators to make supply drops and check on the welfare stops.
There was a live feed yesterday on YouTube
“bomb cyclone” is not a meteorological term. I need to do a search to see if it is even used in peer reviewed papers.
It’s a phrase used to scare people and push a narrative.
And here it is, a study from 1980:
and a good general overview from SA:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-a-bomb-cyclone/
There IS a term called “bombogenesis” and the first paper uses the term “bomb”.
But what a poorly picked word choice. Fred Sanders was a well respected professor at MIT in meteorology. Little did he know that the terms he in part helped create are being used to advance a climate agenda by other researchers that push normative science.
If meteorologists on the TV, etc are going to use that term they should at least have the intellectual honesty to explain what the term means - “an extratropical surface cyclone whose central pressure fall averages at least 1 mb hour (-1) for 24 h hours”.
And no, they don’t need to define it that way - but put it in a way that is easy for people to understand and how it can affect the upcoming weather. But thoughtful analysis does not sell as much as ginning up fear.
The storm has been downgraded to a winter storm warning warning until tomorrow morning.
My sister reported that her whole house was shaking from the winds. She had power but knows others who lost theirs. She could not open her back door because of the snow drift against it but was able to get out the front.
I can’t imagine 48 hours of straight blizzard like that with no let up. And dumping 4-5 feet of snow to boot.
It’s a good thing for them it’s going to be warming this week because it’s going to take them at least that long to clean up from this storm.
I’d trade the flooding for this cold right now. Our guest house’s pipes are froze and we have all the family home…
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