11-26-2019, 02:46 PM
(11-25-2019, 07:40 PM)Juniper Wrote: WTH?....you'd think it was the end of the world, the way the news is going on. A cyclone bomb. Why on earth would they give it a name like that other than to increase paranoia and heighten fear? This is why I don't watch the news.
By cracky you sound like you are 90 years old LOL
. The term was not made up to increase paranoia and heighten fear. It's actually a real thing and as you see below it's a specific kind of winter storm named by meteorologists and not news people trying to sensationalize the weather.If you want to get pissed at something how about when they don't even show the actual temperature and they show what it FEELS LIKE
That driver me nuts. It's not even accurate because the chill factor is based on the wind speed and that varies.
IMO that is indeed sensationalizing the weather.Even worse it doesn't accurately describe the weather/temperature.
If a winter storm is dubbed a bomb cyclone or “bombogenesis” by meteorologists, it means it is expected to rapidly intensify, dropping 24 millibars (or atmospheric pressure) over a 24-hour span, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). A typical range in millibars is around 10 to 15.
Atmospheric pressure drops when air near the Earth’s surface rises “faster than it can be replaced at the bottom.”
When the fall in atmospheric pressure is sudden, the result is often called a “bomb cyclone” because the drop typically creates violent weather that arrives like a bomb going off. Some meteorologists use the term “explosive cyclogenesis” to describe the storm’s formation.
Bombogenesis, explosive cyclogenesis: whatever you call it, you should know it can bring “hurricane-force winds” and all that that suggests: downed trees, buckets of rain, suddenly roofless houses, impassable roads.