'Bomb Cyclone' Becomes One Of The Northeast Pacific's Strongest On Record As It Hammers West Coast

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• Carvex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Gawd is super mad at us because gays or something something, it has nothing with us polluting our planet to our own extinction.

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  • whyalone@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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• StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨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.

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  • msfroh@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨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.)

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  • m4xie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • MrVilliam@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨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!

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• QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • meep_launcher@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh, I thought it was like “bomb ass pussy,” but your way is also a way

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• Baguette@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨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

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  • meep_launcher@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh man I’m sorry that sucks. First thing I want when I get home from a trip is a meal :(

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