The East Coast Is Bracing for Yet Another Bomb Cyclone

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The infamous bomb cyclone may be back. Winter Storm Riley, set to slam into the East Coast this weekend, is predicted to be the most powerful storm since January’s bomb cyclone—bringing hurricane-strength winds, heavy snow, torrential rain, and coastal flooding.

“Remember Jan. 4th?” the National Weather Service in Boston warned. “This storm has the potential of being worse!”

The storm will begin to develop Thursday evening with heavy winds up and down the seaboard. Pressure in the atmosphere off the Atlantic coast may suddenly plummet Friday evening, according to several forecasts. This could trigger “bombogenesis,” when a mid-latitude cyclone rapidly intensifies and drops atmospheric pressure drastically—at least 24 millibars over 24 hours.

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The Weather Channel says high wind watches and warnings are in effect from Maine to the southern Appalachians, including “virtually the entire I-95 urban corridor from Boston to Washington DC.” Some airlines are already waving change fees for flights along the East Coast.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2018/03/the-east-coast-is-bracing-for-yet-another-bomb-cyclone/

[elleng]

1. YES.

https://www.windy.com/?38.626,-77.266,5

[Weed Man]

2. Looks like we will get something in NYC

But what? 2 to 4 inches of snow and i have no desire to stay longer than my planned visit. I go back to Denver on the 5th so both families in NY and Denver can celebrate my birthday that day.

[brush]

3. When did the term "bomb cyclone" come about? I lived in NYC until '06 and never heard it back then.

Is this just a new name for the wicked nor'easters we used to get hammered with?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. From the article

“bombogenesis,” when a mid-latitude cyclone rapidly intensifies and drops atmospheric pressure drastically—at least 24 millibars over 24 hours.

[brush]

5. That doesn't quite answer my question. Are they what we used to call nor'easters...

wicked storms that we dreaded back then.

I mean this is a new term, only being in widespread use since last year.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Not a new term

They're pretty common in the Aleutians.

[brush]

9. See post number 7

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. The world doesn't revolve around New York

They have these kind of storms elsewhere.

[brush]

11. That could well be but we're talking about east coast of the US and I asked if bomb cyclone...

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was just a new (in common usage in the US) term for what used to be called Nor'easters in that part of the country.

Turns out it is.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. According to this article they aren't necessarily the same

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/noreaster-hammering-the-east-coast-could-become-a-bomb-cyclone/ar-BBJM3UF?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp

Wikipedia while often useful is a user edited site. Sometimes it's not accurate.

[OnlinePoker]

7. It's precursers started in the 40's and 50's

By the 70's, it became "Explosive Cyclogenesis" and by the 80's, the term "bomb" was used. I don't think it came into common parlance until recently when weathermen need to make Nor'easters sound more ominous.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesis

[brush]

8. Just as I thought, they are the same as Nor'easters.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

12. I never heard that term either until this year.

Perhaps I need to move out from under this large rock.

[brush]

13. Not to worry, the way they're hyping this storm, it'll blow the rock away.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. Ahhh, yes. I should have realized that.

Thanks for the heads up.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. Yesterday it was in the 50s here in New York

The mountains of snow were melting, the side streets were finally passable, I saw a pair of red winged blackbirds and I got my car washed. But now it's snowing again.