Posted on 04/09/2019 6:53:32 PM PDT by EdnaMode
A weather whiplash is predicted to hit people in the Rockies and Plains this week, as conditions go from balmy to blizzard overnight. The high is predicted to be around 80 degrees in Denver and other cities Tuesday — but within 24 hours, blizzard conditions are forecast, the National Weather Service says.
"Warm today. Snow tomorrow," says the NWS office in Denver and Boulder, Colo., predicting temperatures that could hit record highs Tuesday — followed by rain turning to snow, in a blast of cold air that will ride winds of 40-60 mph on Wednesday.
For many central U.S. residents, the week began with warnings of a possible winter storm. But predictions now call for an April blizzard that could bring whiteout conditions. And because of the intense drop in pressure, the system could develop into the region's second bomb cyclone in less than a month.
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1980, Easter Sunday, 12 inches, El Paso, TX, woke up to the snow and Jimmy Carter telling us about the screw up trying to get the Hostages.
[ A Second Bomb Cyclone: Colorado Predicted To Go From 80 Degrees To A Blizzard ]
More Global Warming Snow? Global Warming is amazing!
Seems to me that sudden temperature changes like that could cause trouble if there was a girl and her little dog Toto visiting from Kansas.
About 10 years ago a cold front was really blowing in on something like a high-70 / very-low 80’s day here. You could feel the chill rushing like a train. I predicted tornadoes.
I don’t know if they happened but an hour or two later we were in the basement of the company after the warnings went off. May have been the local weather guys predicting potential tornadoes where we were.
It’s expected to be a white-out blizzard, 60mph winds, with 10 inches of snow or better, beginning with freezing rain. Its not just the usual rockymountain snow.
I learned many years ago that Colorado has only 3 seasons...July, August and winter.
Seriously though, white out bluzzards can be killers along the front range. People have lost their bearings and died.
There’s nothing on those plains to slow down that wind and blowing snow. A three inch blizzard can leave 20 foot drifts. I’ve seen houses burried from the roof down.
Even snow plows have to stop in some areas because the road will be so badly buried they can’t even find it anymore in combination with white out ahere you can’t see beyond the nose of the truck.
These bad blizzards aren’t the norm even in Colorado. They happen, but not frequently. Snow into June...yes. But these bomb blizzards are a horse of a different color.
If you watch the weather, it IS a cyclonic storm pattern.
The normal snow storm isn’t.
Yes, its normal to have 70 degrees one day and a good snow storm the next. It warms up again, and then it snows again. Thats a different thing from these cyclonic blizzards.
Them fancy vacuum cleaners use that vortex thingy to suck up all the crap on the shag carpet. Same thing - except it's sucking all the cold air out of the North Pole and killing the polar bears. And penguins.
I was wrong about a Carter that was several weeks later on April 24, but the snow was real. Lol
This last Monday will probably end up being the nicest day of year. We don’t get very much nice weather in SE Wisconsin. Too hot, too cold, too windy, too muggy, too dry, too wet. It’s always something except 72F, sunny and low humidity.
What will the next whorehouse media marketing agents come up with?
Nuclear Vortex
Rain Armageddon
Fission Snow
Supercritical Sunshine
Stock tip: Invest in ICE.
Personally, I’m hoping for a YUGE AVALANCHE miracle!
(Hockey playoffs)
Which is worse?
The “bomb cyclone” or the “Polar Vortex”?
The nuclear drizzle!
If the weather was the same everywhere, or totally predictable, the human race would have gone extinct due to boredom.
Did you ever wonder if that was a situation similar to Benghazi ?
Yup
I'm sorry but, yes, it is the norm here. I've lived here for 64 years and seen this over and over again. Having grown up on the eastern side of Denver I am quite familiar with what storms on the plains are like.
If you watch the weather, it IS a cyclonic storm pattern.
Yes, and there is nothing new about that or the term "bomb cyclone." That is a meteorological term that has been around for decades. It's just new for it to be used by TV weather casters.
"....And Leon's getting L-a-a-a-a-arger!"
A bomb cyclone is a low whose central pressure reading drops more than 24 millibars in 24 hours. This low is currently at about 992 mbs in eastern Colorado and is predicted to be close to 978 mbs in eastern Nebraska within 24 hours. Thus technically it is not a bomb cyclone. However it does look very powerful at any time after about sunrise Wednesday and will have some extreme wind gusts quickly developing over eastern CO, western KS and most of NE, southeast WY together with snow and blowing snow. So it is a legit blizzard. The track is predicted to take it to southwestern MN by Friday morning. The blizzard conditions will spread through NE into SD, eastern ND and w MN before the storm weakens gradually later Friday.
There will probably be a fairly powerful severe weather outbreak near the Mississippi valley into the Midwest starting late Wednesday and lasting into Thursday.
This term “bomb cyclone” is not a new scare term, it was used in this way for quite a long time now — the reason this storm won’t qualify is not how strong it gets, but how deep the low is near formation stages so it can’t drop the full 24 mbs but it will get to a strength that other bomb cyclones in the past have reached from a higher starting point. Results will therefore be similar.
I wish. It was the coldest match on re old here and April hasn’t started out much better. That said April is one of our heavier snow months normally
Just months ago, when California was getting a lot of much needed rain and snow, they caled it merely the “weather conveyor belt.”
It seems that to reach the news, things need to be epic record-braking, catastrophic, and now
.....a BOMB. Got your wandering attention yet ?
ALERT: TRUMP Tweets....Weather in California. Moving easterly.
Today, Tuesday, wasn’t so bad. I got my outdoor exercise in before the temp dropped.
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