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26 January 2022, 05:01 PM
wtg
Snowmaggedon! (formerly "I learned a new word today")
Bombogenesis.

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A powerful blizzard is likely to strike parts of New England and the Mid-Atlantic beginning Friday and lasting into the weekend, with snow totals that are likely to be measured in feet.

The big picture: The joining of weather systems embedded in both the polar, or northern branch, of the jet stream and the southern branch is projected to create a bomb cyclone. Such storms undergo a process known as bombogenesis, with their minimum central air pressure readings plunging at least 24 millibars in 24 hours.


https://www.axios.com/blizzard...a1-7671e2af8c10.html


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26 January 2022, 07:15 PM
CHAS
So a bombogenesis is a powder day?


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26 January 2022, 09:28 PM
AdagioM
I feel like “bomb cyclone” is a word coined in the past few years; they used to call it something else…


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27 January 2022, 05:56 PM
CHAS
quote:
Originally posted by AdagioM:
I feel like “bomb cyclone” is a word coined in the past few years; they used to call it something else…


Also saw it called a "Nor'easter" which is a term I have seen before.


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27 January 2022, 09:38 PM
Piano*Dad
Nor'easter is a geographic reference to a particular winter storm path of a low pressure system up the east coast.

Bombogenesis refers to the rate of pressure drop over 24 hours.

A Nor'easter can be both!
27 January 2022, 09:49 PM
AdagioM
We get the “atmospheric river” which used to be the “Pineapple Express” because it came from Hawaii-ish.


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29 January 2022, 11:12 AM
wtg
What are our east coast WTFers seeing out of their windows today?


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