Did the Weather Channel come up with those names?
I think “Bomb Cyclone” was a term they came up with for what everyone in New England had been calling a Noreaster for the previous 10 years. Which was basically a winter hurricane. A low front that comes up from the south traveling in a north eastern direction and spinning counter clockwise.
Atmospheric river is just another name for the Pineapple Express. Its nothing new but it sounds scarier.
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Agreed. I don’t buy into the hype words. I don’t mind “atmospheric river,” aka Pineapple Express. 9 of them in three weeks is unusual but far from unprecedented
Woodbutcher, you are completely correct. They have hyped-up the language.
BTW, Juan Brown on his youtube channel has a GREAT video regarding the current water-snowpack conditions in the northern Sierras. He flies his Cessna 310 over all this area and shows aerial views of the snowpack and the lakes. Excellent for those interested for in-depth analysis.
I weathered a Nor’easter in Maine in 1968. Wind chill was 60 below. Nobody ever called it a “bomb” anything.