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.)
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StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 3 days 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 2 days ago
m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days 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 3 days 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!