April blizzard
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And I will be driving all night in the hopes of beating the blizzard to south-central Nebraska..... According to my calculations, if I don't make it to Sidney by 10am tomorrow morning I am SCREWED! Funeral stuff on Thursday night and Friday afternoon that I WILL ATTEND (please mother nature????)!!!!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/w...es/we-city?iso=US&el=8xx6fxwudyh4nXIhObkHTA==
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/w...es/we-city?iso=US&el=8xx6fxwudyh4nXIhObkHTA==
Dairy Queen screwed it up for everyone!
Praying for you to have safe drive my friend..This time of year you just never know how thick and quickly the snow can come down..
Good luck. Keep it between the ditches. I don't think we're going to get much here in thayer county. But 50 miles can make a big difference. We've been really warm so it won't stick much unless super heavy
Relax. Nothing new to see here. Just haven't seen it for awhile. I must be getting old. Starting to sound like the old timers in my day. They' d seen it all. Now I feel like that guy.....
"By the time I get to Phoenix, you'll be stranded,
you'll find yourself *** deep in snow"
And I'll laugh at the part that says you're freezing,
'cause time and time again I told you so,
when that blizzard hits, it's really gonna blow."
Apologies to Glenn Campbell and Jimmy Webb
you'll find yourself *** deep in snow"
And I'll laugh at the part that says you're freezing,
'cause time and time again I told you so,
when that blizzard hits, it's really gonna blow."
Apologies to Glenn Campbell and Jimmy Webb
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A bomb cyclone is short word for a bombogensis weather event for an area with rapid low pressure, which the term itself is already a combination of a storm bombing out and a cyclone, and it happens in areas both tropical and non-tropical.
But hey let's take your uneducated word for it. A "blizzard" in April just doesn't get much attention.
Thanks Google. I guess the geniuses that are weather predictors only managed to name a blizzard a BOMB CYCLONE in the last few years. You know, because SCIENCE.
Anytime the low pressure drops mpre than 24 millibars within 24 hours, it's referred to as a bombogensis.. That rapid kind of a drop in air pressure is rare, especially over land. The last bomb cyclone broke land-based air pressure records as it was as low as a traditional category 3 hurricane with winds of a cat 2 cyclone.. This next storm will be very similar to the last.
This isn't 'new terminology'. Neither is Polar Vortex, mesocyclone or sting jet. This is new to you because these are becoming more common.
Making fun of scientists because you don't understand what is happening will make people laugh at you.
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Yankton. After reading the report this morning it looks like they are expecting it to go further North than expected so we may only get a few inches.
This is why we need the green new deal. The world is gonna end in 12 years due to climate change.
Also, I’m unwilling to work and want a living wage.
Also, I’m unwilling to work and want a living wage.
From Oneill west they could get 14-24 inches. But the cutoff line is a ways south. I GI we should only get a 1/4" of ice and maybe 1-2" coupled with 45-60 mph winds.
No snow in Denver yet but we'll likely get some later today. People's heads explode over our April/May snowstorms but I would much rather get snow in April than in December. We could get a foot and it will be gone in a day or two.
I mean...it is either snowing or it isn't snowing...I get that weathermen make bank and have to justify their salary but really how much more do we need to know other than that it "might snow a lot"
This used to be the case. Now when people make fun of scientists, the crowd claps each other on the back while muttering angrily, "Effin' scientists think they know everthang!"
Casper area of Central Wyoming was slow going at 3&4am because of snow, but not icy road conditions. Turned to rain around Cheyenne and has been that way all the way to NorthPlatte, where I am at at 10:30ish central time.
Sioux Falls isn’t going to get as much as was first predicted but they are still going to have Blizzard conditioning...
They make weather forecasts. Well, they read what the NWS puts out. Man I miss the days of Mel Mains, Kinney, Bob Geiger. Not sure if they were all "meteorologists" but they knew their weather.
Forgive me. How dare I forget Bob Taylor.
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There was nothing "uneducated" about what I said. In fact, my comments came from a point of education. I knew exactly what a bomb cyclone was, and even if I didn't, I could have looked it up. My point was that most meteorologists do not use the term, and there is a reason for that. In fact, the term was hardly known except among meteorologists and other scientists until last year, when the general media picked up on it with a storm in the northeast and started using it. Bomb cyclones aren't new-they've been around for a long time. The fascination with it among the media is new. There's nothing about the conditions associated with a bomb cyclone that calling it just a mere blizzard doesn't get across. The National Weather Service has no warning for a "bomb cyclone". They have a Blizzard Warning, which is what they've issued. The point is, there is no need to draw attention by screaming "bomb cyclone!" when the same weather terms we've always used work just fine.
For that matter, this storm is actually likely to fall short of the "bomb cyclone" designation of dropping at least 24 millibars of pressure in 24 hours. Yet that hasn't stopped some media from calling it one anyway.
“White privileged precipitation”.
It’s the need to sensationalize it, like, um, pretty much everything else in society today.
The forecast by the "experts" was 4 inches 24 hours ago. Now its a foot. Just sayin.
