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.