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ArchGuy1 wrote:A bomb cyclone is due to hit the Northeastern United States this weekend with 8-12 inches of snow
vikkyvik wrote:My elementary-school-self says why can't this happen on a weekday, so at least you get a snow day out of it?
Looking at the weather forecasts for my hometown, doesn't look like anything major. A bit windier than normal.
Then again, trying to predict the weather in New England is like......well, trying to predict the weather in New England.
DiamondFlyer wrote:Because with Covid and the technology set up for at-home learning, there are no more snow days.
DIRECTFLT wrote:
vikkyvik wrote:DIRECTFLT wrote:
It's interesting. Normal snowstorms in Massachusetts show the opposite pattern - higher snowfall the farther you go inland.
Kent350787 wrote:My family in MA (Arlington) is prepping for up to 2’ of snow, and hoping storms earlier have taken down the riskiest branches already. Gusts up to 100mph forecast.
FGITD wrote:Kent350787 wrote:My family in MA (Arlington) is prepping for up to 2’ of snow, and hoping storms earlier have taken down the riskiest branches already. Gusts up to 100mph forecast.
I was initially a little disappointed when my company transferred me out of BOS to a warm weather climate. But it’s days like these that I don’t miss the snow.
Revelation wrote:This click bait hype language about weather events is absurd.
Bomb? What ___Ing bomb are they talking about?
Cyclone? That's not a thing in the NE USA.
Just call it a blizzard like we have for centuries, instead of triggering people to go out and buy up every last sheet of toilet paper in town.
Revelation wrote:This click bait hype language about weather events is absurd.
Bomb? What ___Ing bomb are they talking about?
Cyclone? That's not a thing in the NE USA.
Just call it a blizzard like we have for centuries, instead of triggering people to go out and buy up every last sheet of toilet paper in town.
Revelation wrote:This click bait hype language about weather events is absurd.
Bomb? What ___Ing bomb are they talking about?
Cyclone? That's not a thing in the NE USA.
Just call it a blizzard like we have for centuries, instead of triggering people to go out and buy up every last sheet of toilet paper in town.
luckyone wrote:I’m sure within a few hours of the storm passing life will go on. This is nothing folks who live in the Great Lakes and Northeast haven’t experienced before. Heck, there’s almost two feet of snow in my yard right now. Haven’t missed a day of work and nobody’s missed school. Yawn.
ER757 wrote:Revelation wrote:This click bait hype language about weather events is absurd.
Bomb? What ___Ing bomb are they talking about?
Cyclone? That's not a thing in the NE USA.
Just call it a blizzard like we have for centuries, instead of triggering people to go out and buy up every last sheet of toilet paper in town.
You said it all in your first line - "clickbait." The Weather Channel is all about sensationalism and "awfulizing" every weather event. And the rest of the media tend to play along. Like you say, it's a blizzard, but hey, they'll get way more clicks on their website and viewers on their TV channel calling it a Bomb Cyclone, way more scary sounding
flyguy89 wrote:ER757 wrote:Revelation wrote:This click bait hype language about weather events is absurd.
Bomb? What ___Ing bomb are they talking about?
Cyclone? That's not a thing in the NE USA.
Just call it a blizzard like we have for centuries, instead of triggering people to go out and buy up every last sheet of toilet paper in town.
You said it all in your first line - "clickbait." The Weather Channel is all about sensationalism and "awfulizing" every weather event. And the rest of the media tend to play along. Like you say, it's a blizzard, but hey, they'll get way more clicks on their website and viewers on their TV channel calling it a Bomb Cyclone, way more scary sounding
I’m glad I’m not the only one tired of this nonsense…bomb cyclone, heat dome of death, death snow cyclone, thunder dome snow hurricane predicted for Northeast. Can I have that job?
ER757 wrote:flyguy89 wrote:ER757 wrote:You said it all in your first line - "clickbait." The Weather Channel is all about sensationalism and "awfulizing" every weather event. And the rest of the media tend to play along. Like you say, it's a blizzard, but hey, they'll get way more clicks on their website and viewers on their TV channel calling it a Bomb Cyclone, way more scary sounding
I’m glad I’m not the only one tired of this nonsense…bomb cyclone, heat dome of death, death snow cyclone, thunder dome snow hurricane predicted for Northeast. Can I have that job?
You forgot "Polar Vortex" - that one sounds like a sci-fi film
Revelation wrote:This click bait hype language about weather events is absurd.
Bomb? What ___Ing bomb are they talking about?
Cyclone? That's not a thing in the NE USA.
Just call it a blizzard like we have for centuries, instead of triggering people to go out and buy up every last sheet of toilet paper in town.
ER757 wrote:You said it all in your first line - "clickbait." The Weather Channel is all about sensationalism and "awfulizing" every weather event. And the rest of the media tend to play along. Like you say, it's a blizzard, but hey, they'll get way more clicks on their website and viewers on their TV channel calling it a Bomb Cyclone, way more scary sounding
ER757 wrote:You forgot "Polar Vortex" - that one sounds like a sci-fi film
dragon-wings wrote:I live about a mile from MacArthur Airport (KISP) and they said the airport got 24.7 inches of snow!
c933103 wrote:Revelation wrote:This click bait hype language about weather events is absurd.
Bomb? What ___Ing bomb are they talking about?
Cyclone? That's not a thing in the NE USA.
Just call it a blizzard like we have for centuries, instead of triggering people to go out and buy up every last sheet of toilet paper in town.
Bomb cycline is scientifically defined as an extratropical cyclone with minimum pressure dropping at least 24 milibar in 24 hours.
It describe how rapid the storm intensify, thus the term bomb.
The term have been around for quite some years already, although I guess it wasn't uses by US media as much?ER757 wrote:You said it all in your first line - "clickbait." The Weather Channel is all about sensationalism and "awfulizing" every weather event. And the rest of the media tend to play along. Like you say, it's a blizzard, but hey, they'll get way more clicks on their website and viewers on their TV channel calling it a Bomb Cyclone, way more scary sounding
It wasn't a term invented by The Weather Channel either.ER757 wrote:You forgot "Polar Vortex" - that one sounds like a sci-fi film
Polar Vortex is just that - Vortex from polar area
Revelation wrote:dragon-wings wrote:I live about a mile from MacArthur Airport (KISP) and they said the airport got 24.7 inches of snow!
Here in Southern NH near KASH I just measured and we got 7 inches.
We didn't even make the 8 inch forecast the weather people were going with all week nor the 18-24 show in the snowfall map posted earlier, so the "bomb" was just a firecracker.c933103 wrote:Revelation wrote:This click bait hype language about weather events is absurd.
Bomb? What ___Ing bomb are they talking about?
Cyclone? That's not a thing in the NE USA.
Just call it a blizzard like we have for centuries, instead of triggering people to go out and buy up every last sheet of toilet paper in town.
Bomb cycline is scientifically defined as an extratropical cyclone with minimum pressure dropping at least 24 milibar in 24 hours.
It describe how rapid the storm intensify, thus the term bomb.
The term have been around for quite some years already, although I guess it wasn't uses by US media as much?ER757 wrote:You said it all in your first line - "clickbait." The Weather Channel is all about sensationalism and "awfulizing" every weather event. And the rest of the media tend to play along. Like you say, it's a blizzard, but hey, they'll get way more clicks on their website and viewers on their TV channel calling it a Bomb Cyclone, way more scary sounding
It wasn't a term invented by The Weather Channel either.ER757 wrote:You forgot "Polar Vortex" - that one sounds like a sci-fi film
Polar Vortex is just that - Vortex from polar area
Thanks for your post.
As above, before there was a Weather Channel that makes its money by hyping things up and triggering people, no we did not know what a "bomb cyclone" is, nor did we need to, "blizzard" was good enough, at least here in the Northeast US. And we didn't give names to anything but hurricanes. The reason is ordinary winter storms are just that, ordinary. It snows, you clear the snow, you go back to work/school. You don't run to the grocery store and buy every piece of toilet paper you can find. When there was a severe storm, well, those only happen once a decade or so, and then we refer to them by year such as "Blizzard of 1978" or "Hurricane of 1955", because as now, typically the next question will be "When was Hurricane Sandy anyway?".
fr8mech wrote:DiamondFlyer wrote:Because with Covid and the technology set up for at-home learning, there are no more snow days.
You wanna read something stupid. Our local public school system still has snow days, even though they're fully capable of going remote...as they did for 6 days because of teacher/staff absences. Freaking stupid.
AirKevin wrote:Random question. How does one do remote learning for classes like gym, band, or wood working.
GalaxyFlyer wrote:We’re in the 12”-18” area, with 18”-28” close by. I’d like to think the weather keeps out the riff-raff, unfortunately the resident riff-raff keeps proving me wrong daily.
At 19F, it’ll be a dry snow, easy to clean up.
einsteinboricua wrote:Nor'easter. The NE was getting a Nor'easter. Stop with the sensationalist headlines and incorrect buzzwords...that's a huge pet peeve of mine with a lot of news networks.
Bomb cyclone: terminology used for a rapidly intensifying low pressure system. Because of the steep pressure gradient, such systems become almost their own kind of storm, with hurricane-like conditions depending on how much the pressure has dropped. However, the term "bomb cyclone" is merely an adjective to describe any low pressure system that rapidly intensifies (the correct term for this phenomenon is explosive cyclogenesis).
Polar vortex: refers to a wide area of cold air over Earth's poles, kept in place by the jetstream. If you were to look at a map of temperature and winds at about 500mb, you'd see the jetstream encircling the poles and the temperature difference as a result (lower temperatures on the polar side of the jetstream). An unusual dip of the jetstream further south than normal (i.e. elongated trough) is NOT a polar vortex (as it was called during the winter cold snap of early 2014).
While calling the event a "blizzard" is appropriate, there was more to the storm than just high winds, low temperatures, and snow. Not all regions experienced blizzard conditions so the term is localized unless along the entire storm track there were also blizzard warnings. Someone in NH might have experienced blizzard conditions while someone in CT might have gotten a dusting; therefore, NH media may refer to the event as a blizzard while CT may just use winter storm. Calling it Nor'easter collectively describes the impact to the wider region beyond a blizzard; for areas near the shore, coastal flooding and freezing spray can also play a factor.
Dutchy wrote:GalaxyFlyer wrote:We’re in the 12”-18” area, with 18”-28” close by. I’d like to think the weather keeps out the riff-raff, unfortunately the resident riff-raff keeps proving me wrong daily.
At 19F, it’ll be a dry snow, easy to clean up.
Let's convert it into metric so it is intelligible for the rest of the world.
12”-18” area, with 18”-28” --> 30cm - 45cm / 45cm - 71cm That is quite a bit of snow. I really had no idea what to expect
19F --> -7.2°C ok, a bit chilly, nothing to dramatic I would. say.