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Potential Bomb Cyclone, Great Lakes Blizzard Ahead | Weather.com

1st image: W​inter storm alerts, watches and advisories already issued by the National Weather Service, as of December 19th at 2 PM EST.

A​ major storm – named Winter Storm Elliott by The Weather Channel – could become a bomb cyclone over the Midwest later this week and bring blizzard conditions to parts of the Great Lakes as well as high winds to the East Coast, snarling travel in the days leading up to the Christmas holiday weekend.

T​his developing storm will also usher in bitterly cold air to much of the nation as far south as Texas, the Gulf Coast and Florida. For the latest, complete forecast on this cold snap, click here.  ...

...  B​omb Cyclone Perspective

We mentioned earlier that this winter storm could become a bomb cyclone.

A​s a rule of thumb, meteorologists refer to a strengthening low as "bombing out" or undergoing bombogenesis if its minimum surface pressure drops by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours or less, though how much a pressure drops depends on a storm's latitude.

Meteorologists frequently discuss pressure in terms of millibars, rather than inches of mercury. The lower the pressure in a storm, the more intense it is.

And the greater [the] difference in pressure over an area, the stronger the winds.

W​inter Storm Elliott has the potential to plunge to a pressure that could threaten December low-pressure records in the Great Lakes, according to data compiled by Weather Prediction Center meteorologist David Roth.  ...

Bombogenesis!

*Bombogenesis!*

*BOMBOGENESIS!*

IM GOIGN TO DIE

Preparing for the bomb cyclone

Since all the TV weather folk are hyperventilating about the “bomb cyclone” that is expected to throw a huge swath of the country into the deep freeze – or worse – in the next 24 hours, I figured this would be a good opportunity for a quick Word of the Day (to give you something to do while you’re busy freezing to death or waiting for the power to go out…or come back on).

The Word of the Day is “bomb cyclone.” (Yes, I know that’s two words. Humor me.) It appears the term was coined, or at least popularized, in 1980 by MIT professor Fred Sanders and his colleague John Gyakum. They wrote a research paper that used the catchy (and scary) term for a meteorological phenomenon known as “bombogenesis,” sometimes also known as “explosive cyclogenesis.”

Basically, it all refers to a very rapid decrease in air pressure at the center of a storm (a decrease of at least 24 millibars within 24 hours, for all you weather geeks). When the pressure drops like that, meteorologists say the rapidly intensifying storm “bombs out.” And the results can be explosive, indeed, including heavy snow, fierce winds, power outages, torrential rain and flooding. The bomb cyclone can also bring with it dramatic drops in temperature – 40 or 50 degrees in a matter of hours. Kaboom!

Take it seriously and be prepared to hunker down for a while. They don’t call it a bomb for nothing!

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the weather here has been stormy enough for me to finally pull this playlist out, so i thought i’d share if anyone else wants a soundtrack while we brace this bombogenesis cyclone together:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/12IzGHaT23DJT8pnpqcbd3?si=1332aef969dc42a7

"kill them with kindness" WRONG bombogenesis 🤏🐙🤏🦐🤏🐚🤏🐛🧠💫🧠💫🧠💫🧠💥💥💥💥💥🥩💥💥💥🥩💥🥩🥩💥

Steddie Twister AU

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 — Bombogenesis

Interlude: Eddie.

Eddie Munson grows up in the Midwest, on the edge of so-called Tornado Alley. After a twister destroys his family home, he’s sent to live with his uncle in Indiana. It spurs a hyperfocused interest in the unpredictable monstrosities, these unknowable disasters.

He zips through undergrad; he might have hated high school, but he’s smart. Math and science and geography make sense to him. Hell, he uses some of that shit in DnD on occasion, to make it more terrifying in its realism.

Grad school sees his intensity turn to the specifics of what occurs within the funnel itself. He wonders and wonders about how to observe it, how to get the data. Someone else can parse it out, he doesn’t care, but he wants to figure out step 1. He wants to know the core.

Dustin is the one who introduces him to Nancy Wheeler. She’s working on her PhD already, and her single-mindedness rivals and maybe surpasses his own. They start theorizing together, working on models and research with some of the others. 

But when Eddie starts putting his thesis together, starts building the thing he’s named Sweetheart, everything goes to shit. Because Jason Carver accuses him of plagiarism and academic theft. 

Carver’s a dickhead, but the professors love him, and he has a loyal group of cronies at his beck and call. He makes it clear that he wants Eddie’s head on a platter and he’s happy to skip the normal disciplinary hearings to get it.

Eddie knows his shit will stand up in front of the department heads. He’s got Nancy and Dustin and the others who’ve been helping him gather his work. It’s probably why Jason loses his mind and resorts to physical violence.

So he runs. Fuck Carver and fuck his buddies and fuck the department for doing nothing to protect him. Eddie flees, terrified of the possibilities. It’s only chance that changes his life trajectory by blowing Steve Harrington into his path. 

A day after Carver starts his witch hunt, Eddie hunkers down and tries to figure out a plan. The cops won’t listen, the fucking useless bastards, and he knows people are looking for him. So when Harrington surprises him, he responds on instinct.

And then he’s staring into hazel eyes only inches from his own, breathing in a light cologne, one hand fisted in a polo shirt and one on a bottle. He watches Harrington’s lips part, pink and perfect, and comes back to himself, realizes Dustin and Max and Robin are shouting at him.

Jesus Christ, he thinks, stumbling back. He’s never been that close to Harrington before. The man’s pretty—he’d have to be blind not to have noticed—but fuck. He had no idea just how pretty. 

In the weeks that follow, he learns more. He sees how Steve stands up for him; he trusts Steve to protect him from Carver; he lets Steve help to prove his research belongs solely to him. And he starts to fall in love.

It’s fast and sudden and intense. One day, he only vaguely remembers Harrington exists; the next, he’s invading his personal space, analyzing the way Steve looks back at him, and admiring his quiet strength and protectiveness.

He never had a chance. No early warnings. No time to escape. Just a sudden drop, a shift in pressure, and an explosion of feelings. 

And then there’s Steve.

Asking some artists/writers that I follow:

What is the most recent thing you've written or drawn? Do you like to share sneak peeks of your work, or do you prefer to post finished pieces only?

Thanks so much for the asks!

The most recent thing I've drawn is the 2K DTIYS for sharkfinn's Little Brother au.

If I'm stuck and can't work on a drawing for a while I'll sometimes share a doodle, but I much prefer to share completed drawings/works.

I only tend to share writing or fanfics if I fully intend to finish what I start.

But since we're here, have a little preview of the sketches I did for the Chapter 8 banner of But Who Will Carry You? : Something’s Got to Give

And the most recent thing I've written is Chapter 7 : Bombogenesis, from the same fic.

I'm currently working on Chapter 8, but it's mostly notes right now. The fic is set tl update April 6th, and I'll post the finished banner art that day too 😉

relatedly, working on the hylics dolls gave me the motivation I needed to playthrough the game again and actually finish the sidescrollers/get bombogenesis this time. and man I love that game but being able to throw a nuke at gibby made things way too easy lmao. it’s about the journey tho I guess!!!!

anyway I finished every other fight by throwing an extremely op somsnosa at everything and it was great actually

kubrick stares or unlearning death

after a long night of sleepless reflection, i can now see that yesterday was indeed a bad day

Today's #WordOfTheDay may knock the air out of you. It's bombogenesis. 💨

Learn more about this #ScienceWordOfTheWeek, courtesy of our friends at the @museumofscienceboston.

Atmospheric River Lashes California Just four days after heavy rain hit California, the state was drenched with another atmospheric river on January 4 and 5, 2023. A plume of moisture from the tropical Pacific interacted with a low-pressure system that rapidly strengthened over the northeast Pacific, producing a storm that caused flooding, toppled trees, and downed power lines. According to the National Weather Service, coastal areas of California saw wind speeds of 40 to 80 miles per hour. On the evening of January 4, wind speeds exceeded 100 miles per hour near Lake Tahoe. About 1 to 3 inches of rain fell on communities near Santa Cruz and San Francisco on the evening of January 4, but the storm continued to drop rain on the Bay Area as it moved east on January 5. Some areas south of Big Sur saw 6 to 8 inches of rain in 24 hours. This map shows (top) the total precipitable water vapor in the atmosphere at 5:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on January 4, 2023. Precipitable water vapor is the amount of water in a column of the atmosphere if all of the water vapor were condensed into liquid. Dark green areas on the map indicate a narrow band of moisture flowing from the tropical Pacific toward the West Coast, making this atmospheric river an example of a “Pineapple Express.” The image was derived from NASA’s Goddard Earth Observing System, Atmospheric Data Assimilation System (GEOS ADAS), which uses satellite data and models of physical processes to calculate what is happening in the atmosphere. The series of atmospheric rivers drenching California in recent days could be seen as welcome relief to the state’s persistent drought. Atmospheric rivers occur regularly in wintertime, and they account for up to 50 percent of all rain and snow that falls in the western United States. However, the rapid succession of atmospheric rivers leaves communities more susceptible to flooding and could cause landslides. The lower image was acquired on January 4, 2023, at 1:20 p.m. Pacific Standard Time by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the NOAA-20 satellite. It shows the storm as it was intensifying, which contributed to the high wind speeds. When air pressure in a mid-latitude cyclone rapidly drops and winds intensify, these storms can undergo a process meteorologists call bombogenesis. Storms with central pressures that fall an average of least 1 millibar per hour for 24 hours are sometimes called “bomb cyclones.” Downed power lines contributed to leaving over 170,000 homes without electricity as of the morning of January 5, according to PowerOutage.us. Most of the outages were seen in coastal counties such as Mendocino, Sonoma, and San Mateo. Atmospheric rivers are among the most damaging storm types in the middle latitudes, especially with regard to the hazardous wind they produce, according to research led by Duane Waliser at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Waliser and colleagues examined the most destructive windstorms of the last 20 years—the top 2 percent in terms of wind speeds near Earth's surface—and found that atmospheric rivers were associated with up to half of these storms. As Californians cleaned up from this latest storm system, the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center expected more atmospheric rivers to reach the state on January 7 and 9, 2023. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC and VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Story by Emily Cassidy.

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