If you think the UK met office over hype words related to relatively ordinary meteorological conditions,
The news media and the all day weather stations here in the USA (watching tv while away on business in the colonies) are describing the storm that has just travelled up the east coast of America from Florida to Canada as having undergone bombogenesis.
Pressure reducing by over 24millibars between the start of the low to its end. It did drop a load of snow and cause over 4000 flight cancellations.
Great word, will we see it in the met office lexicon soon.

On 05/01/2018 00:36, wrote:
If you think the UK met office over hype words related to relatively ordinary meteorological conditions,
The news media and the all day weather stations here in the USA (watching tv while away on business in the colonies) are describing the storm that has just travelled up the east coast of America from Florida to Canada as having undergone bombogenesis.
Pressure reducing by over 24millibars between the start of the low to its end. It did drop a load of snow and cause over 4000 flight cancellations.
Great word, will we see it in the met office lexicon soon.

Perhaps this might help -
https://www.snopes.com/2018/01/04/re...-social-media/

An older term than you thought?

On Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 7:36:50 PM UTC-5, wrote:
If you think the UK met office over hype words related to relatively ordinary meteorological conditions,
The news media and the all day weather stations here in the USA (watching tv while away on business in the colonies) are describing the storm that has just travelled up the east coast of America from Florida to Canada as having undergone bombogenesis.

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Well... it did! It was probably the most rapidly deepening East Coast cyclone known, its central pressure having dropped 59 hPa in 24 hours... more than double the threshold of the "bombogenesis" definition. There's nothing "relatively ordinary" about it!

Although I'm not keen on "bomb cylcone" or even "bombogenesis" particularly the latter has been in use a long time. I'd prefer "explosive cyclogenesis" but I'll admit that's not necessarily a lot different; or at least wouldn't be if the media got ahold of it and twisted it.


Stephen
Indianapolis, IN.

On Friday, 5 January 2018 09:19:54 UTC, Metman2012 wrote:

Perhaps this might help -
https://www.snopes.com/2018/01/04/re...-social-media/

An older term than you thought?

And has its roots in academia, not media, I believe...

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/...T%3E2.0.CO%3B2

Richard