'Meteorological bomb' to lash northeastern US

AccuWeather ^ | oct. 16, 2019 | Alex Sosnowski

[Red Badger]

Some way, some how, this is Trump’s fault........................

[OttawaFreeper]

Because we know that even the 1938 storm was just a few clouds and showers.

[Reily]

Notice how simple meteorological terms are now more hysterical in content (and I don’t mean funny!) then descriptive!

[madison10]

Not a Nor’easter?

[rdl6989]

Has Greta Thunberg started the protest yet?

[rktman]

Ow ow ow! Is there a contest to name it.

[Red Badger]

She’s still stuck in an Iowa cornfield.................

[Dilbert San Diego]

This could interrupt the baseball playoff games scheduled for New York.

Off topic, but baseball rolls the dice every year, by pushing the world series later and later into the autumn. Bad baseball weather is very predictable for this time of year in most of the country, but the people who run baseball don’t care about that.

[CJ Wolf]

Currently in the middle of the “bomb cyclone”

I used to call it a rainy day.

[GreyFriar]

We need to demand the UN outlaw ‘Meteorological bomb[s].’

[Sirius Lee]

I callz it a Great Lakes hurricane, and nobody’s gonna change my mind.

[skimbell]

I did a quick search and the term "bomb cyclone" has NO hits prior to 2018.

Not saying they just made it up, but the term doesn't appear to have much of a history.

Sort of like the "polar vortex" they were throwing around a year or so ago.

[dhs12345]

It is called scary word scrabble. We had a “bomb cyclone” last spring and we survived.

[Reily]

Use or abuse of language not to inform the public but to excite in a negative way!

[cgbg]

Today’s game is postponed.

The storm will be over by tomorrow morning.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

This is the equivalent of a BOOM in a headline.

[SamAdams76]

I've noticed a trend towards normal weather being re-branded with "alarming" sounding terms like "bomogenesis"; "polar vortex"; "arctic blast", etc.

And what we are getting on the East Coast over the next couple of days is NORMAL weather for late October.

I've lived in the Northeast much of my life and you can count on a number of "northeasters" in any given year from about October to March. I would say 6-8 big coastal storms in a season is about the average for the Northeast. I might actually be on the low side.

[jughandle]

Really hate when someone panics on our behalf. We’re in NJ, it’s gonna rain, and might be breezy....that’s all.

[ml/nj]

OMG! What should I do?

ML/NJ