markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Relatively new term describing the weather we are having in NJ. So, we did not have that kind of weather in prior times?? It is "new kind of weather"?
How about, "It's Snowing"?

I guess I'm not a Millennial!
Mark

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Toment Loc: FL, IL

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CWW Loc: North Jersey

Agreed.

chuckrem Loc: Katy, Tx

foodie65

Haven’t heard the term before this year but this is the third or fourth such storm for my area this year

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

In 1995/96 in NJ we had 18 snow storms. I taught mathematics in HS. We actually had a make up day on a Saturday. It was a challenging and difficult time to achieve continuity in the classroom. However, we managed.
Mark

Soul Dr. Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley

Bomb Cyclone sounds more sensational than, it's going to snow a lot.
You know everything nowadays has to be hyped up somehow.

will

Triple G

It's living up to the additional hype here in East TN.

NickGee Loc: Pacific Northwest

Actually, the term has been around for quite some time, and denotes something quite more intense than a snowstorm. Here's a bit more information.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-a-bomb-cyclone/

Soul Dr. Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley

We are getting that here too!

will

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Just a new name for an old event. The types who write papers about the weather have to do something to stake a claim to fame and naming something might do it. And it gives them terms to use that make them sound more knowledgeable.

The weather and climate change in cycles and there will always be someone who freaks out and declares the "end of the world" because of the change.
My Grandmother remembered the late 1890s when Western Kentucky would get so much snow that she could walk the 150 yards to the country school house (she was lucky she lived so close) in a straight line right over the top of the fences on the fields instead of walking to the road and then down the road to the school. Then in the early 60's when I lived on the farm and was in high school we had a couple of storms that dropped 18" of snow. The first time the county schools had to use any of the "snow days" built into the schedule in decades because the school buses couldn't get to a lot of farms to pick kids up. We also had one day off due to rains so heavy that the creeks in many of the valleys got up so high the bridges were under water so the county just stopped the buses "in case". When the water went down we did find one bridge the bus I rode used that had some of the heavy planks on a steel frame that made the roadway had been torn off by the water. Useable with care but it could have been worse.

DavidPhares Loc: Chandler, Arizona

Reminds me of a couple of years back when all of a sudden they were calling one of our big old sand/dust storms by the label Habbib! Just a sand or dust storm. Get over yourselves, weather people!

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

Haboob and it is a type of sand/dust storm driven by thunderstorm cell winds. It compares to a regular dust storm as a hot loaded .357 compares to a light .38 load.

Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

And here I thought it was just the typical New York hype. We all know if it doesn't happen in New York, it doesn't happen...don't we? And if it does happen, it's the worst thing that has ever happened...isn't it? And whatever happens, it's always closer to the hot .357 load than it is to the light .38 plinker load... right?
What ever happened to preparing as best you can, riding it out to the end, and then getting up and carrying on with a story to tell the grandkids?

robertjerl Loc: Corona, California

[quote=Retired CPO]And here I thought it was just the typical New York hype. We all know if it doesn't happen in New York, it doesn't happen...don't we? And if it does happen, it's the worst thing that has ever happened...isn't it? And whatever happens, it's always closer to the hot .357 load than it is to the light .38 plinker load... right?And here I thought that was Los Angeles.
What ever happened to preparing as best you can, riding it out to the end, and then getting up and carrying on with a story to tell the grandkids?[/quote

It is of course an Arabic word. In that part of the world they are pretty much experts on types of dust and sand storms even if they don't want to be.
Look here for pictures of some. https://www.google.com/search?q=haboob+arizona&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS937US937&oq=haboob&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i512l6.3678j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Several of those images are of the BIG one in Phoenix about 10 years ago and people who were there still remember and talk about it. It looks more like a giant wave of muddy water than dust and sand in the air and was over 100 miles wide when it hit Phoenix.