Posted on 11/20/2024 1:24:32 AM PST by Libloather
SEATTLE (AP) — A major storm swept across the northwest U.S. Tuesday evening, battering the region with strong winds and rain and causing widespread power outages and downed trees that killed at least one person.
The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks through Friday and hurricane-force wind warnings were in effect as the strongest atmospheric river — a large plume of moisture — that California and the Pacific Northwest has seen this season overwhelms the region. The storm system is considered a “ bomb cyclone,” which occurs when a cyclone intensifies rapidly.
Downed trees struck homes and littered roads across northwest Washington. In Lynnwood, Washington, a woman died Tuesday night when a large tree fell on a homeless encampment, South County Fire said in a statement on X. In Seattle, a tree fell onto a vehicle, temporarily trapping a person inside, the Seattle Fire Department reported. The agency later said the individual was in stable condition.
“Trees are coming down all over the city & falling onto homes,” the fire department in Bellevue, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of Seattle, posted on the social platform X. “If you can, go to the lowest floor and stay away from windows. Do not go outside if you can avoid it.”
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As of 8 p.m., the peak wind speed was in Canadian waters, where gusts of 101 mph (163 kph) were reported off the coast of Vancouver Island, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle. Along the Oregon coast, there were wind gusts as high at 79 mph (127 kph) Tuesday evening, according to the National Weather Service in Medford, Oregon, while wind speed of 77 mph (124 kph) was recorded at Mount Rainier in Washington.
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Bomb cyclones are a thing again?
It used to be called a storm.
It’s a subtle kind of propaganda, I think. Bombs, really? I mean, Trump is not even in office yet, and it’s starting.
No, it’s not.
It’s a term meteorologists have been using for decades. It describes a certain progression of a low pressure system were a storm intensifies rapidly. It tells meteorologists in very few words a lot of information on the storm and what to expect from it.
Explosive cyclogenesis aka Bomb Cyclone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesis
“Explosive cyclogenesis (also referred to as a weather bomb,[1][2][3] meteorological bomb,[4] explosive development,[1] bomb cyclone,[5][6] or bombogenesis[7][8][9]) is the rapid deepening of an extratropical cyclonic low-pressure area. The change in pressure needed to classify something as explosive cyclogenesis is latitude dependent.
For example, at 60° latitude, explosive cyclogenesis occurs if the central pressure decreases by 24 millibars (0.71 inHg) or more in 24 hours.[10][11] This is a predominantly maritime, winter event,[10][12] but also occurs in continental settings.[13][14]
This process is the extratropical equivalent of the tropical rapid deepening. Although their cyclogenesis is entirely different from that of tropical cyclones, bomb cyclones can produce winds of 74 to 95 mph (120 to 155 km/h), the same order as the first categories of the Saffir–Simpson scale, and yield heavy precipitation. Even though only a minority of bomb cyclones become this strong, some weaker ones can also cause significant damage.”
“ It’s a subtle kind of propaganda…”
It is.
And not all that subtle.
The weather manipulators are having a heyday now with their weather manipulation equipment. Some folks are still trying to figure out the unnatural Hurricane Helene event. It looks like they are now calling these things ‘bombs.’ It appears there may be land grabs behind these catastrophes. Lahaina, Maui is another weird one people are still scratching their heads over. Here is a documentary on western North Carolina. Note the lack of communication that preceded both the Lahaina and Helene events where the people were caught completely of guard of these unnatural fast moving events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap3uIwGD9DQ
The global cooling cult switched to the global warming cult in the 1990s.
“lack of communication that preceded both the Lahaina and Helene events”
Seriously?
I live in Florida, and we knew about, and were preparing for, Helene a full 6 days before it made landfall. There was plenty of warning on both the intensity and track of that storm.
Lahina was on the national news the first day they couldn’t contain it.
I don’t know how these could be communicated any better than they were.
It’s yet another British term our media are trying to normalize here. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think they were trying to get the whole world on one page.
The shxt alone is knee deep on the left coast on a good day. 100” of snow, 20” of rain and some good mud slides would be an improvement.
Yes anything to hype up the news cycle and get clicks. Yesterday I watered the lawn and apparently the “news” listed it as a “named storm “ and sent team coverage 😎😂🦆
In 2008 there were serious ice storms in the Northeast and in the Midwest. Dozens of fatalities, many millions lost power for extended periods of time.
Weather happens.
“It’s a term meteorologists have been using for decades”
And... it’s in the NWS glossary
https://forecast.weather.gov/glossary.php
Port Townsend WA had winds to 61 mph.
I guess all of my years of meteorology training and practical application were wasted. I never heard of a polar vortex, a bomb cyclone, or an atmospheric river until Al Gore’s propaganda movie Inconvenient Truth. The movie is probably required classroom material in today’s meteorology courses, J School, and weatherman acting classes.
We did, however, use the term Mid Latitude Migrating Frontal Cyclone.
EC
Yes. Thanks for the link.
Here on Camano Island we got clocked at 66mph. I’ve been on generator for about 12 hours now.
It’s a term meteorologists have been using for decades.
But not TV weathermen.
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