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GeorgeFlippin

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Truehuskerfan said:
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.
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He thought he could get you with that “uneducated” snipe, he doesn’t know you very well.
 
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speedy66

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huskerfan66 said:
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.....
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I do too. The only difference is we talk about 78 instead of 49.
 
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Last night put on a pretty impressive thunderstorm. I can't remember a thunderstorm lasting that long. We had a power surge at one time that seems to have messed up my baby monitor. Woke up to two inches of sleet on the ground.
 
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We will need basic income in the future.

Technology and stupid immigration policies will destroy the job market.
 
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Truehuskerfan said:
Bomb cyclone is not even a word used by most meteorologists. It's just used by people who want to get attention. Just a mere "blizzard" doesn't get the attention that "BOMB CYCLONE!" does.
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It actually has a technical definition according to my weatherman. A Bomb Cyclone is a low pressure that rapidly develops losing 24 mb of pressure or more in 24 hrs or less.
 
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kerpal_68 said:
Last night put on a pretty impressive thunderstorm. I can't remember a thunderstorm lasting that long. We had a power surge at one time that seems to have messed up my baby monitor. Woke up to two inches of sleet on the ground.
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10-20?
 
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huskeroption2003 said:
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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Can we make fun of them when predictions of doom and gloom fail to appear time after time after time?
 
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huskeroption2003

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Huskers_Rule said:
Can we make fun of them when predictions of doom and gloom fail to appear time after time after time?
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The event happened, both times. They succesfully predicted a very rare event both times.

That proves they know a lot about the physics behind climate. What they 'science got wrong' was a non-exact prediction by a futurecast model. We ahould be amazed at how close these models are, a week or two in advance.

How were they wrong?
 
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huskeroption2003 said:
The event happened, both times. They succesfully predicted a very rare event both times.

That proves they know a lot about the physics behind climate. What they 'science got wrong' was a non-exact prediction by a futurecast model. We ahould be amazed at how close these models are, a week or two in advance.

How were they wrong?
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Quiet Bevacqua, go back to the bar and call an uber.
 
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Cloud_a_Heart said:
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/weatheralerts/Casper,WY,United-States/we-city?iso=US&el=8xx6fxwudyh4nXIhObkHTA==
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Cloud, did everything turn out OK for you - travel wise? Hopefully all went well.
 
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PvilleHuskerTim said:
Cloud, did everything turn out OK for you - travel wise? Hopefully all went well.
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Yes.... Thanks for asking! Made it through a tough stretch at 3am Wednesday morning, but beat the storm to Sydney and arrived in time Wednesday afternoon to have beverages with family in Davenport and then Bruning and then Daykin. Drove 16 hours straight yesterday, leaving at 4am and arriving at 8pm to Helena. Great roads, but stupid winds would be my only complaint.

Hopefully no more trips to the cornfields for the foreseeable future..... Many friends/family are coming this direction for my oldest son's high school graduation in early June. He will be a Montana State Bobcat in the fall.

I hope all are recovering from a brutal stretch of weather across the plains. GBR!
 
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Cloud_a_Heart said:
Yes.... Thanks for asking! Made it through a tough stretch at 3am Wednesday morning, but beat the storm to Sydney and arrived in time Wednesday afternoon to have beverages with family in Davenport and then Bruning and then Daykin. Drove 16 hours straight yesterday, leaving at 4am and arriving at 8pm to Helena. Great roads, but stupid winds would be my only complaint.

Hopefully no more trips to the cornfields for the foreseeable future..... Many friends/family are coming this direction for my oldest son's high school graduation in early June. He will be a Montana State Bobcat in the fall.

I hope all are recovering from a brutal stretch of weather across the plains. GBR!
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Super! Hate to say it though, the only good Bobcat is a Peru State College Bobcat. But I suppose a MSU Bobcat is a close second.....
 
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