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.

  • QuantumSparkles
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 hours ago

    So I’m guessing they don’t mean “bomb” in the good way?

    • meep_launcher@lemm.eeOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      9 hours ago

      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.

        • meep_launcher@lemm.eeOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          8 hours ago

          Ah, I thought it was also like “cherry bomb firework” that fuckin rocked but yea that too

  • Carvex@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    31
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    20 hours ago

    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.

    • whyalone@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      5 hours ago

      It’s probably Biden’s fault or because of abortions, or because there is no more prayer in schools

    • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      14
      ·
      20 hours ago

      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.

  • StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    20
    ·
    19 hours ago

    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.

    • msfroh@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      6 hours ago

      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.)

    • m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      5 hours ago

      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.

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      18 hours ago

      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!

  • Baguette@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    18 hours ago

    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