The Pacific Northwest is now getting Cyclones (Pacific Hurricanes)
I think I speak for many PNW folks when I say we always thought that was more of a Florida thing.
Lost power in Seattle Weds night and finished our D&D session by candlelight. It was kind of cool. I heard another one is on the way tonight.
Gawd is super mad at us because gays or something something, it has nothing to do with us polluting our planet to our own extinction.
It’s probably Biden’s fault or because of abortions, or because there is no more prayer in schools
Nope and had nothing to do with all the oil that has been burned or polluted the environment. Nope, not even that big ass fire ball that was burning under water for a while in the Gulf. Nope nothing with that at all.
On the off chance someone reading is feeling mildly irked by the bombastic language used to describe this fucked up weather, ysk ‘bomb cyclone’ is a technical term in use since the 50s and has a formal definition. TIL (and you can too!)
Or just scroll down OPs page to the Bomb Cyclone 101 link.
BC had gusts at almost 160 km/h from this beast yesterday and about 150K people lost power. At the last update I read, about 90K people were still in the dark.
Around 500k without power in the Seattle area.
(Posted in the dark as I’m told that we should expect power by around noon on Saturday.)
Hopefully this is one of those outages where you feel all cozy, light some candles, your blood pressure goes way down and you’re sharing what’s in your freezer with the neighbours, and not a freezing cold with mobility issues on the 21st floor kind of outage. Stay safe.
Its definitely not
Interesting. Thanks!
Per NOAA, “In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used.” Source. I thought that the appropriate term for a hurricane-like storm anywhere in the Pacific was “typhoon,” but it appears that that is reserved for the Western Pacific. So continuing your trend of learning a thing about this and helping others learn it today too!
We lost power since 1 am last night. Even though we’re in a major city, we won’t have it back till noon tomorrow.
Fingers crossed it’s up and running again soon!
It came back at 7:45am. My housemate’s father is one of the linesmen that pulled a 16 hour shift. Huge thanks to them!
Is this being blown up in the media? I have a couple friends that live in Oregon and Washington and they’re saying this is pretty standard.
In Oregon and Washington the standard used to be a pretty predictable “Columbus Day storm” in early-mid October. In the last 15-20 years it’s been drifting later and later, but this year’s is the latest I’ve ever seen, assuming that’s what it is.
It is, and I think the novel thing about it is that it was a cyclone. Wind storms do happen out there and it’s normal to see a few trees go down, but a bomb Cyclone is a completely different story.
So I’m guessing they don’t mean “bomb” in the good way?
I’m afraid not. Not even in the “I’m Matt and I work in sales but my dream is to do standup professionally so I started going to dive bars in Chicago but get absolutely shit faced before I go up and decide I can just whiff it to an audience of 3 who are in the same boat and aren’t laughing because they are all reading their own notes” kinda way.
Oh, I thought it was like “bomb ass pussy,” but your way is also a way
Ah, I thought it was also like “cherry bomb firework” that fuckin rocked but yea that too
My area got hit while I was out on a business trip, so I guess I’m coming back to spoiled food since I got the message saying there was no electricity
Oh man I’m sorry that sucks. First thing I want when I get home from a trip is a meal :(