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'Bomb Cyclone' Becomes One Of The Northeast Pacific's Strongest On Record As It Hammers West Coast (weather.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/aboringdystopia

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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.

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[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] cmbabul 1 points 1 week ago

Its definitely not

[–] MrVilliam 7 points 1 week 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!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fingers crossed it's up and running again soon!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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!