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The Pacific Northwest is now getting Cyclones (Pacific Hurricanes)

I think I speak for many PNW folks when I say we always thought that was more of a Florida thing.

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[-] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

On the off chance someone reading is feeling mildly irked by the bombastic language used to describe this fucked up weather, ysk 'bomb cyclone' is a technical term in use since the 50s and has a formal definition. TIL (and you can too!)

Or just scroll down OPs page to the Bomb Cyclone 101 link.

BC had gusts at almost 160 km/h from this beast yesterday and about 150K people lost power. At the last update I read, about 90K people were still in the dark.

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Interesting. Thanks!

Per NOAA, "In the North Atlantic, central North Pacific, and eastern North Pacific, the term hurricane is used." Source. I thought that the appropriate term for a hurricane-like storm anywhere in the Pacific was "typhoon," but it appears that that is reserved for the Western Pacific. So continuing your trend of learning a thing about this and helping others learn it today too!

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