Bomb Cyclone is a recent term. Maybe a few years old. And it’s stupid. Because what we just had roll through New England has a name. We call ’em nor’ easters. Maybe this one was in transition, and the Weather Channel is just being #Woke?
This is what I get for having a Google alert set up. ‘”Bomb Cyclone Leaves Hundreds of Thousands Without Power in Northeast; Fire Destroys Three Homes.”
More than 500,000 people were without power Thursday morning as a bomb cyclone brought rain and heavy winds to the Northeast U.S., knocking down trees and fueling a fire that destroyed three homes.
Stupid name. No one forecasts bombs (maybe they do in the middle east?) and they don’t take two days to go off. And the weather is already reality television, you don’t need to create fake drama to make the real drama more dramatic.
Producer: “Wait, wait. Back the storm up. Do it again, but this time with more feeeeling!”
Hey, that’s how they do it on CNN.
Whoever coined the term bomb cyclone should be forced to live with whoever thought we should name winter storms. Jose delivered 12 inches last night and now everyone is behind.
And, about the fire in the Weather Channel headline. It occurred “in the Fire Island hamlet of Ocean Bay Park.” Fire Island lives up to its name. Homes burn there all the time when it’s not windy. I had to refine my search several times to find the right fire. Which was made worse by the windy weather, but it is not clear what started it. There is no apparent connection to the weather except for the wind. Not yet.
I hope it wasn’t power lines near poorly managed trees. They have that in California, and when it’s windy, they turn the power off.
Speaking of trees,
Nearly 220,000 homes and businesses were without power in Massachusetts as of 11 a.m., according to poweroutage.us. Some 220,000 outages were also reported in Maine. Power was also out across large portions of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont. There were still more than 400,000 customers across the region without power Thursday evening.
I’m waiting for someone to blame CO2 for all the trees. Peak solar maximum (we’re in a solar minimum now) tends to result in a lot of extra CO2 in the air for a while, which, as you know, greens the planet. More green means more trees means the wind knocks them down and out go the lights.
The solution (to everything, if you ask a Democrat) is a tax on every form of everything. In this case, energy and transportation. That will supposedly reduce man-made CO2, which means fewer trees needing to feed on it, and if we still had lights, we could leave them on, but light will be banned along with cars and air travel and warm gruel, and comfortable living.
And the next “bomb cyclone™” will seem that much worse because it will. But we’ll still call it a nor’ easter assuming the Climate Courts can’t haul us in for refusing to use the proper weather pronoun.
I know. What’s not stupid sounding about nor’easter? Well, if your standing in one, and you try to say northeastern that’s how it sounds because your mouth is nearly frozen shut. And that’s with three decades of global warming.
Did you know CO2 also cools the planet? It’s true.
