'Bombogenesis' Replaces 'Polar Vortex' as Global Warming Excuse for Extreme Cold

NewsBusters ^ | November 9, 2014 | P.J. Gladnick

[kiryandil]

Grateful for cheap nat gas.

Don't know about your neck of the woods, but they jumped the price 20 cents per THM this summer while no one was looking where I'm at.

It was 68 cents last winter, but it will be 88 cents this winter. That's going to leave a mark, if we have similar weather.

[Pajamajan]

"Does this 'winter' you speak of, also explain why it has been getting darker since the middle of June?"

OMG-I've noticed that! And have you looked at the trees?-Their leaves are dying. What's happening?! Everybody run in circles- panic!

We need to elect democrats to save us from the seasons!

[FredZarguna]

Animals can sense these things; they know that the end of the world is coming. The chipmunks and squirrels in the backyard have all turned into preppers over the last month or so...

[21twelve]

77, 78 and 79 I raced on a boy’s cross-country ski team in the upper midwest. We wore the flimsy nylon one-piece suits. It was REALLY important to have an extra sock (use your imagination!)

Our coach even tried to rig up a sock as a “snorkle” to breath through to warm up the air a bit before we enhaled. That sock didn’t work.

The other sock you sure didn’t want to forget!

[SamAdams76]

The term "bombogenesis" has been used by Boston-area TV meteorologists for decades. It was usually used to describe an Albert Clipper that would move off the New Jersey coast south of New England and "bomb" into a major northeaster that would "clobber" the area with heavy snows.

More often than not, those forecasts would bust but in doing so, they'd sell a lot of milk and bread and would boost the ratings of the local newscasts. Back in the pre-Internet days, when snow was threatening, New Englanders would stay up for the 11pm newscast to see what Bruce Schwoegler, Dick Albert or Harvey Leonard had to say about the "big storm."