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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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[-] Carvex@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Gawd is super mad at us because gays or something something, it has nothing to do with us polluting our planet to our own extinction.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Nope and had nothing to do with all the oil that has been burned or polluted the environment. Nope, not even that big ass fire ball that was burning under water for a while in the Gulf. Nope nothing with that at all.

[-] 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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