Powerful “Bomb Cyclone” Slams Pacific Northwest

The Weather Channel reports:

A “bomb cyclone” has become one of the northeast Pacific’s strongest storms on record, resulting in damaging winds across the Pacific Northwest overnight.

This storm’s impacts aren’t done yet, however, since it is also hauling in a strong, long-duration atmospheric river to the region, which is likely to produce flooding rain and feet of mountain snow.

The storm easily met the criteria for what meteorologists call bombogenesis, from where the term “bomb cyclone” originates. That means its pressure dropped by 24 or more millibars in 24 hours or less. This storm more than doubled that criteria.

The New York Times reports:

Washington State felt the initial brunt of the system as strong winds downed trees and power lines in and around the Seattle area on Tuesday

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