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To: McGruff

Who came up with the stupid ‘bomb cyclone’ name in the first place and why is everyone going along with it?


16 posted on 01/04/2018 5:22:26 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa
Who came up with the stupid ‘bomb cyclone’ name in the first place and why is everyone going along with it?

Explosive cyclogenesis

In the 1940s and 50s meteorologists at the Bergen School of Meteorology began informally calling some storms that grew over the sea "bombs" because they developed with a great ferocity rarely seen over land.[12]

By the 1970s the terms "explosive cyclogenesis" and even "meteorological bombs" were being used by MIT professor Fred Sanders (building on work from the 1950s by Tor Bergeron), who brought the term into common usage in a 1980 article in the Monthly Weather Review.[8][12] In 1980, Sanders and his colleague John Gyakum defined a "bomb" as an extratropical cyclone that deepens by at least (24 sin φ/ sin 60˚)mb in 24 hours, where φ represents latitude in degrees.

22 posted on 01/04/2018 5:32:37 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The Whig Party died when it fled the great fight of its century. Ditto for the Republicans now.)
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To: piasa

Because it’s too cold to be a sharknado.


30 posted on 01/04/2018 5:49:33 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: piasa
Meteorologists in the 1940’s and 50’s. Technically need 24mb drop in 24hrs to qualify. I would guess TV has popularized it
32 posted on 01/04/2018 5:53:49 PM PST by Cold Heart
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