'Bomb cyclone': US braces for explosive winter storm (Now there's a term I never heard in weather)

[icymist]

The US is braced for a "bomb cyclone" - a weather phenomenon which officials say will arrive during a cold snap that has already claimed at least 11 lives.

Forecasters say a severe pressure drop will lead to an explosive winter storm along the eastern US, and is already bringing snow to Florida.

The US is currently on its 10th day of frigid record-breaking low temperatures which began around Christmas.

But the predicted new storm has led meteorologists to deploy a new term.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42544605

[snowybirdie]

1. Weather channel hype

A bad winter storm with a new "sexy" name to gin up viewership.

[Blues Heron]

2. "bombogenesis" has been a weather word for a while

It's defined as a storm that deepens 24millibars in 24 hours or less- "bombing out" if you will.

Very serious storm on tap, not to be taken lightly.

[PoliticAverse]

3. Apparently someone decided the word "blizzard" wasn't alarmist enough. n/t

[Blue_Adept]

4. You realize it's not a buzzword, right?

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/3/16843234/winter-storm-bomb-cyclone

[LanternWaste]

5. The same someone who is far too clever to realize the word came into usage in the late 40s

The same someone who is far too clever, intelligent and well-read to realize the word came into usage in the late 40s by the Bergen School of Meteorology?

Or someone else who makes simplistic allegations to appear clever?

[PoliticAverse]

6. Looks like someone named "Fred Sanders" is to blame...

From: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/01/03/what-bombogenesis-bomb-cyclone-monster-storm-moves-up-east-coast/998980001/

In the 1940s, some meteorologists began informally calling some big coastal storms "bombs" because they develop "with a ferocity we rarely, if ever, see over land," said Fred Sanders, a retired MIT professor, who brought the term into common usage by describing such storms in a 1980 article in the journal Monthly Weather Review.

Many nor'easters -- infamous big storms that wallop the East Coast -- are the product of bombs, according to meteorologist Jeff Haby.

I'll stick with Nor'easter blizzard.