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

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

[ChicagoConservative27]

One of the worst major coastal flooding events on record — likely near Superstorm Sandy levels — is imminent for parts of the Eastern Seaboard as a soon-to-be bomb cyclone enters the Northeast.

This comes in the absence of blizzard conditions on the warm side of the dangerous winter storm that is walloping the Midwest and Great Lakes as it begins to spread toward the East Coast ahead of the Christmas holiday weekend.

The Fox Forecast Center said windswept rain is expected Friday in the Northeast as powerful winds blast the region with widespread 50-plus-mph wind gusts.

In addition, 60- to 70-mph gusts cannot be ruled out with the passage of the Arctic cold front Friday into Friday night. At least a few scattered power outages are likely, and more widespread outages are possible.

At the coast, strong onshore winds will lead to a significant coastal flood event along south-facing coasts, especially with the Friday morning high tide.

Flood levels are forecast to be among the top 10, and in some cases the top five, on record along the south shore of Long Island, the Jersey Shore and the Connecticut coast.

[dead]

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.