Deadly ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Smashes Pacific Northwest
Breitbart ^ | 11/20/2024 | Simon Kent
Posted on 11/20/2024 7:23:21 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Intense winds smashed the Pacific Northwest on Wednesday morning as a strengthening low-pressure storm system, known colloquially as a “bomb cyclone,” moved in from the Pacific Ocean leaving chaos and at least one person dead in its wake along with mass power outages.
The rare storm system combines heavy rain with high wind to create what scientists call as an “atmospheric river.”
The phenomenon also known as “bombogenesis” could intensify so rapidly in the Pacific Northwest over the next 24-hours it has the potential to become a “triple-bomb” three times the strength of a regular bomb cyclone, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) in San Francisco.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News; Outdoors; Weather
KEYWORDS: bomb; cyclone; northwest; pacific
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