Retired CPO Loc: Travel full time in an RV

[quote=robertjerl][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.[/quote]

Yep, I was there. It was a sand storm!

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

[quote=robertjerl][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.[/quote]

I was there for that one, though living in Glendale, it had dissipated to a large degree by the time it got to me - still a lot of dust in the air, though! On the exposed freeways, pictures showed it to be as bad as the heavy fog on the Los Angeles freeways. I don't remember the date, but one early morning, heading down to the ocean from Burbank for an albacore fishing excursion to the other side of Catalina, I counted 60 car wrecks on the freeway!

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

nikon_jon Loc: Northeast Arkansas

"It's snowing" is a pretty mundane statement and you would be hard pressed to find someone who did not know what that means. 'Ho-hum'. But if you say "bomb cyclone", you now sound like maybe you 'got more smarts' than the average person and you could possible be an important 'somebody'.

My assessment is this. Education can be used to benefit your fellow man or it can be used to make you feel like you are somehow better and above your fellow man. What a shame.

Dannj

Good point, Mark! I kept waiting for something to happen but I wasn't sure what that something might be. There were some heavy winds at times but when it ended, I put my coat on, went outside, scraped an inch or two of snow off the car and went about my business. “Much ado….” as they say.😊

Stephan G

"It's just a sinkhole." No need to know that it swallowed a seven story building. That would be one "somehow better and above".

Many of the official weather designations include the mechanics of the storm to differentiate them for the purpose of linking the preceding conditions for the early alerts.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

I think weathermen (oops--weatherpersons ) sit up at night working to come up with new terms, trying to justify their time slot on tv. I would rather they learn to correctly pronounce “temperature,” and quit saying “tempachure.” There’s an “r” in the word, people--use it!

I feel better now.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Yeah, I think it's ridiculous. Combine two terms that strike fear into people and apply them to a storm. And, of course, it must have a name. This one was Quentin. We had wind, cold, and 3" of snow. No bomb. No cyclone. Which term would get people to read/watch a forecast: "storm" or "bomb cyclone"?

cbabcock

I really don't mind that they use the term. It means, to me, that the storm is going to be more intense because of the deep drop in atmospheric pressure. Hurricane seems more descriptive and useful as a warning than "it's going to be a little windy."

Canisdirus

The term 'Bomb Cyclone' has been in use since 1980.

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

Thanks. I did research the term. I suppose I'm a bit opposed to reinventing the weather. The earth is about 3.5 billion years old. It's likely we've had a "bomb cyclone" before!
Mark

Stephan G

Let's toss in "seasonably" for "seasonal".

tainkc Loc: Kansas City

And they name them. Why?

Stephan G

For the heck of it, citing one of the replies to "What is a bomb cyclone?":

A bomb cyclone, which occurs through the process known as bombogenesis, is basically a winter hurricane.

Stephan G

And:

Technically speaking, a storm undergoes bombogenesis when it's central low pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). (A millibar is a unit of pressure that essentially measures the weight of the atmosphere overhead. Typical sea-level pressure is about 1,010 millibars.)