East Coast flooding threat from bomb cyclone likely near Superstorm Sandy levels

NY Post ^ | 12/22/2022 | Chris Oberholtz, FOX Weather

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not anywhere near the category of *normal* winter weather.

Wrong again. Almost every winter brings a few big storm systems somewhere in the country. This is a big winter storm, I've witnessed many of them. It's winter, it's what winter does.

[21twelve]

I don’t recall hearing the term “bomb cyclone” until a few years ago. I did a search. Turns out some researchers in Norway called them that in-house in the 1950’s. More precise term is “Explosive Cyclogenesis”.

It wasn’t until 1980 when a paper co-authored by Fred Sanders (MIT) used the term “bomb cyclone” that it became more common. So it has been around for a long time as you say.

Funny thing I saw:

The term “bomb” may be somewhat controversial. When European researchers protested that it was a rather warlike term, Fred Sanders, the coauthor of the paper which introduced the meteorological usage quipped: “So why are you using the term ‘front’?”.

[metmom]

Well, every low is a cyclone, technically.

It simply describes the direction of air flow.

[Old Yeller]

Allow me to be the first to apologize for driving gasoline powered cars and heating my house with natural gas.

How dare you! Think of others for a change.