Posted on 09/23/2023 2:49:57 AM PDT by zeestephen
Parts of the Pacific Northwest are about to be hit with the first powerful storm series of the coming winter season, an impact that will bring some whiplash for the region as it goes from severe drought to flash flooding...The main culprit is a storm that will rapidly intensify to the south of the Gulf of Alaska. It is forecast to reach "bomb cyclone" status over the weekend before unleashing fury on the Pacific Northwest into next week.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
We had near record cold weather during February, March, and April, which shut down our typical rainy season three months early.
The primary cause of moderate drought in Seattle was a huge mass of much colder than normal Pacific Ocean water that extended from Vancouver Island all the way down to Baja California for almost six months.
That very cold ocean water was also the cause of record rainfall and snowfall in California.
In other words, winter and spring rainfall that usually hits Vancouver Island and Washington state moved 1000 miles to the south.
Atmospheric river, early-season bomb cyclone …
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LOL
They are now combining hyped fear phrases in headlines
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
Yep, “clickbait” headlines everywhere! What happened to regular old “weather front” or “low pressure area/front”?
The litany of terms are ripped straight from Al Gore’s existential threat advertisement.
I enjoyed the nice weather we had last spring, but new that we would be hurting for water later on. I’m surprised that it is only now that we are having the water shortage notices. I thought the fires would be a lot worse too.
Time to get those outdoor projects wrapped up this weekend.
Forecast: rain.
During May and June, Seattle had about six late night, pre-dawn, rainfalls of around 0.25 inches.
Since the ground absorbed almost all that water - no evaporation, no run off - I believe that is why we have very few visible signs of drought in King County.
Kinda gettin’ a weather bomb on the right coast at the moment. Have ya seen the radar? Impressive.
The term *bomb cyclone* or *bombogenesis* descried the development of a particular storm.
Granted the MSM, as usual, uses it as scare tactics because it sounds sensational, but in the meteorology world, it is simply a very concise term that speaks volumes about the storm development in very few words.
Here in the northeast we had a very late very hard freeze that did a fair amount of damage to the plants.
Then May was dry and since then, we have been inundated. It has wreaked havoc with my garden.
Last year some people we know had wells that went dry. They got recharged this year.
“Atmospheric River”/”Bomb Cyclone”: “Heavy rain” with a press agent ...
The daughter was stationed at Lewis-McCord and we’d visit regularly (from NC). I remember one trip, several years back, it had rained 26-27 days in a row. Winter trips there...we were just chilled to the bone...a deep-down wet-feeling chill. Never expected to see drought in that area. Darn climate emergency.
I agree Bomb cyclone is a bit much, but when those rains come to the west coast atmospheric river is a good term. Those early rains either from the Gulf of Alaska or the Pineapple Express from Hawaii they don’t stop for a while.
Satellite map shows rain clouds forming but no “cyclone” activity; no “atmospheric river” forming, just the usual media flunkies mailing in their “climate” stories.
“Time to get those outdoor projects wrapped up this weekend.”
I know what you mean. I’m in North Idaho and we had a very abrupt end to summer and a quick turn to fall /early wi ter weather. We were doing a lot of travel in July and September, so quite a bit of yard neglect. Time to move summer stuff to storage. It seems just yesterday I was planting the garden pots.
Ya , well,
screw with the weather
( geo engineering chemtrails/harp)
you end up with screwy weather.
“bomb cyclone”
DRINK!🥃
I guess I’ve lived through 3-4 “tornado warning” events. Never worried as we’ve always had a full basement to retreat to. I can’t imagine building a house without one.
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