After a long winter full
of bomb cyclones and last - minute flurries, you aren't willing to wait until the mercury hits the teens to get to your home away from home.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration GOES - 16 satellite caught a dramatic view
of the bomb cyclone moving up the East Coast on Jan. 4, 2017.
Not exact matches
The bone - chilling winter weather that has taken over vast swaths
of America's East Coast — and is expected to intensify later this week as a «
bomb cyclone» descends on the Northeastern U.S. — has already led to at least 11 known deaths, CNN reports.
The storm will continue through Thursday and is expected to deliver several inches
of snow as it moves up the coast in what meteorologists are calling a «
bomb cyclone.»
Not the
bomb cyclone, but a storm
of Winter Olympics content.
The research is timely given the extreme winter
of 2017 - 2018, including record warm Arctic and low sea ice, record - breaking polar vortex disruption, record - breaking cold and disruptive snowfalls in the United States and Europe, severe «
bomb cyclones» and costly nor'easter s, said Judah Cohen, director
of seasonal forecasting at AER and lead author
of the study.
Most
of the US may be experiencing
bomb cyclones and cold fronts at the moment which is making everyone beg for spring to roll around.
The recent «
bomb cyclone»
of 2018 left much
of the East Coast covered in snow.
Between getting caught in the «
bomb cyclone» mess at JFK (the chaos - part
of it nicely explained by Jason Rabinowitz) as well as catching up on a zillion things post-vacation, I haven't had time to write posts for all the somewhat...
We also have seen travel in the New York City area brought to a complete halt thanks to a «
bomb cyclone» that hit with gale force winds, snow and several days
of single - digit temperatures.
Which brings us to a sense
of urgency,
of due dates and deadlines: time moving like a
bomb cyclone, a freight train, a viral meme.
The «
bomb cyclone,» a winter storm that descended on much
of the eastern U.S. from December 27, 2017, to January 8, 2018, renewed the raging debate about resiliency and prompted flashbacks
of the «polar vortex,» a similar deep freeze that transpired in January 2014 and was compounded by the loss
of 82 GW nationwide for various reasons.
PJM clarified that increased reliance on coal units during the
bomb cyclone was the result
of economic dispatch not lack
of gas generator availability.
From the Daily Caller: Coal - fired power plants kept the lights on for millions
of Americans during January's
bomb cyclone, according to an Energy Department report warning future plant retirements could imperil grid security.
Energy analysts at DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory found that coal power kept the lights on for millions
of Americans during the
bomb cyclone that pummeled the eastern U.S. from late December to early January.
A few months ago, the Department
of Energy (DOE) made a request to one
of its national labs, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), to study the impacts on the electricity grid
of a severe cold snap called the
bomb cyclone that hit the Northeast in early January 2018.
Popular Science has a relatively user - friendly definition
of «
bomb cyclone» you can check out, but this type
of weather event is essentially a super fast drop in pressure (
bomb) caused by warm air meeting cold air, combined with the rotation
of the Earth to create a swirling effect (
cyclone).
In fact, it was so cold and stormy that «Winter Storms» was trending in Google, right next to Super Bowl and the Golden Globe Awards; the winner
of this year's Golden Globe went to something called a «
bomb cyclone.»
In more recent times, a number
of traumatic events have occurred on Friday the 13th, including the German
bombing of Buckingham Palace (September 1940); the murder
of Kitty Genovese in Queens, New York (March 1964); a
cyclone that killed more than 300,000 people in Bangladesh (November 1970); the disappearance
of a Chilean Air Force plane in the Andes (October 1972); the death
of rapper Tupac Shakur (September 1996) and the crash
of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast
of Italy, which killed 30 people (January 2012).