Important Takeaways:
- An urgent weather warning has been issued for eight East Coast states with a bomb cyclone expected to unleash hurricane conditions in the region.
- Meteorologists predict that states from Maine to New York will see the worst impacts, with dangerous flooding and widespread power outages predicted to start on Wednesday evening.
- A bomb cyclone is a meteorological term for a storm between the tropics and polar region that rapidly strengthens over a 24-hour period, often leading to considerable damage.
- This super-charged storm will bring wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour, as well as torrential rainfall of eight inches in places, which will be amplified by an atmospheric river stretching 2,000 miles along the coast.
- ‘The impactful nature of the storm in coastal areas of the Northeast will be like a landfilling strong tropical storm or hurricane,’ AccuWeather meteorologists stated.
- The heavily populated metro areas of Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Providence, Rhode Island, and Hartford, Connecticut could see significant urban and small stream flooding, according to AccuWeather.
- ‘The risk for significant flooding will be further amplified across the higher elevations of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine where there is a considerable snowpack of several inches on the ground,’ AccuWeather meteorologist Jonathan Porter warned.
- ‘Damaging winds will blow down trees and power lines. Widespread power outages are expected. Travel will be difficult, especially for high profile vehicles,’ NWS officials stated.
- ‘Remain in the lower levels of your home during the windstorm, and avoid windows. Watch for falling debris and tree limbs. Use caution if you must drive.’
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Important Takeaways:
- A second powerful bomb cyclone and atmospheric river system is battering the Pacific Coast states, bringing more severe weather to regions still reeling from Tuesday’s devastating storm that left hundreds of thousands without power and claimed one life in Washington state.
- As of Friday morning, approximately 180,000 Washington residents remained without electricity, while California reports over 15,000 customers experiencing outages, according to poweroutage.us.
- So severe is the issue in Washington that Puget Sound Energy (PSE), the state’s largest utility provider, issued a letter to customers on X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday evening.
- “To our customers without power: we know you are frustrated,” the letter said. “The system was so strong that it was comparable to a hurricane and did unprecedented damage to our high-voltage transmission systems—the poles and wires that carry electricity from where it is produced to the communities we serve.”
- The company plans to have the majority of customers back online by Saturday at noon.
- The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued severe warnings about life-threatening flooding conditions, particularly in Northern California.
- The forecast includes between 3-5 inches of additional rainfall in coastal areas, with 4-10 inches possible in the northern Sierra Nevada.
- From Northern California to southwestern Oregon, cumulative rainfall is expected to reach 8-12 inches, with potential for up to 20 inches in some locations, according to AccuWeather.
- The consecutive storms are creating multiple hazards across the region, including a high risk of dangerous flash flooding, potential for mud slides and landslides, and significant erosion concerns.
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Important Takeaways:
- One person has died and over 600,000 Americans have been left without power after a ‘bomb cyclone’ swept across northwest U.S. Tuesday evening, with strong winds tearing through towns and downed trees striking homes and vehicles.
- A woman in Lynnwood, Washington died Tuesday night when a large tree fell on a homeless encampment, according to South County Fire department.
- ‘Trees are coming down all over the city & falling onto homes,’ the fire department in Bellevue, about 10 miles east of Seattle, posted on the social platform X.
- ‘If you can, go to the lowest floor and stay away from windows. Do not go outside if you can avoid it.’
- More than 15,000 had lost power in Oregon and nearly 19,000 in California.
- As of 8 p.m., the peak wind speed was in Canadian waters, where gusts of 101 mph were reported off the coast of Vancouver Island, according to the National Weather Service in Seattle.
- Along the Oregon coast, there were wind gusts as high at 79 mph Tuesday evening, according to the National Weather Service in Medford, Oregon, while wind speed of 77 mph was recorded at Mount Rainier in Washington.
- In northern California, flood and high wind watches were in effect, with up to 8 inches of rain predicted for parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, North Coast and Sacramento Valley.
- Dangerous flash flooding, rock slides and debris flows were expected, according to the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center.
- A winter storm watch was issued for the northern Sierra Nevada above 3,500 feet, where 15 inches of snow was possible over two days.
- A blizzard warning was issued for the majority of the Cascades in Washington, including Mount Rainier National Park, starting Tuesday afternoon, with up to a foot of snow and wind gusts up to 60 mph, according to the weather service in Seattle.
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Important Takeaways:
- What happens when an atmospheric river and a “bomb cyclone” happen at the same time? Unfortunately, millions of people living on the west coast are about to find out. Extremely high winds, massive amounts of rain, and blizzard conditions in the mountains are being forecast for the days ahead, but nobody is quite sure exactly how this extremely unusual weather event is going to play out.
- It is very rare for an atmospheric river and a “bomb cyclone” to occur simultaneously, but that is precisely what we are witnessing…
- The arrival of an atmospheric river – a long, narrow band of heavy moisture from the tropics – coincides with conditions in the Pacific where a polar air mass collides with a tropical air mass, causing the atmospheric pressure to drop quickly. Meteorologists call such low-pressure systems a bomb cyclogenesis, bombogenesis, or a bomb cyclone, which intensifies the storm and increases its winds.
- It would be bad enough to be facing an atmospheric river and a “bomb cyclone” at the same time, but it turns out that both of them are also immensely powerful.
- According to meteorologist Ryan Maue, this is a “Category 5 atmospheric river”, and the central pressure of the “bomb cyclone” will drop so low that it will be “similar” to a Category 4 hurricane…
- A massive “bomb cyclone” is set to explode off the U.S. West Coast with hurricane force winds, flooding rains, and enormous mountain snow from Category 5 atmospheric river.
- Central pressure will fall almost 70 mb / 24 hours reaching 942 mb — similar to Category 4 hurricane.
- Ryan Maue is a very highly respected meteorologist, and I have no reason to doubt what he is saying.
- He is also telling us that approximately 20 trillion gallons of moisture will be dumped on the U.S. over the next week…
- According to Accuweather, it is being projected that the central pressure of the “bomb cyclone” will “crash from 29.53 inches (1000 mb) to at least 28.05 inches (950 mb) in 24 hours”…
- The storm will strengthen so fast that it will fit into a special category of weather terminology known as a bomb cyclone. A storm, or cyclone, is essentially a giant spinning vacuum in the atmosphere. When a storm’s central pressure drops 0.71 of an inch of mercury inches (24 millibars) or more in 24 hours or less, it is considered to be a bomb cyclone.
- “This storm’s central pressure is forecast to crash from 29.53 inches (1000 mb) to at least 28.05 inches (950 mb) in 24 hours, which is double the criteria for a bomb cyclone,” AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Heather Zehr said.
- We are being told that the hardest hit areas along the west coast will be “between the San Francisco Bay area and Eureka, California”…
- A blizzard warning has been issued for the Cascade mountains outside of Seattle…
- I think that this storm has the potential to do an enormous amount of economic damage.
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Luke 21:25 ““And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves
Important Takeaways:
- Bomb cyclone slams into San Francisco with hurricane force winds killing one person and plunging over 230,000 into darkness – as yet ANOTHER major storm of year hits California
- A ‘bomb cyclone’ slammed into San Francisco Tuesday evening…devastating the region with hurricane-force winds and torrential rainfall.
- The weather front is the latest major storm to hit the region this year, where it unleashed flash floods and blistering wind gusts throughout the Golden State.
- At least one person died after the gusts – which reached upwards of 78mph – caused a tree to fall near Portolla Valley.
- More than 230,000 residents across California had their power wiped out in the storm.
- Evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz County as torrential rains battered the coastal region
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- Dangers to life, property remain high in California as storm onslaught continues
- AccuWeather meteorologists warn that a moisture-packed system set to arrive early this week could be the strongest in a Pacific storm train that has been rolling since the end of 2022.
- “Flooding from Northern to Central California is expected to be widespread, even catastrophic in some locations around the coastal mountains and the northern and central Sierra. Given saturated ground, much of this water to runoff into rivers where more than a dozen monitored river locations are forecast to be above flood stage, even in the Central Valley,”
- Since Dec. 26, 2022, the downtown area has picked up more than 11 inches of rainfall prior to his storm — a staggering 628% higher than the normal precipitation for that time frame of 1.76 inches.
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- California braces for THREE more storms after battering from bomb cyclone left more than 460K without power and two dead: LA will get a further three inches of rain and San Francisco faces flooding after eight
- An atmospheric river of dense moisture will move to Central California today
- At least six people have died from weather-related incidents in California since New Year’s weekend after the bomb cyclone hit the region
- There are currently 461,960 people without power as California reels from the aftermath of the torrent
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- Toddler dies and 180,000 are without power as mega bomb cyclone slams West Coast with torrential rains and winds up to 130mph: San Fran gas station buckles and towns including Montecito, where Harry, Meghan and Oprah live, are ordered to evacuate
- More than 170,000 are without power in California during heavy wind and gusts
- The storm knocked over trees and killed a child, aged one or two, as peak wind gusts reached up to 130mph in Central California, with many areas seeing gusts as low as 50mph.
- The bomb cyclone is expected to bring up to one to seven inches of rain
- Officials in California have also ordered evacuations in high-risk coastal areas and towns such as Montecito
- Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency with some evacuations
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- Sandbags in San Francisco: California Braces for ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Rainstorm
- California is bracing for a “bomb cyclone” that will accompany several “atmospheric rivers” starting Wednesday, bringing high winds and heavy rain and snow to a state that has been drenched since last week.
- The Los Angeles Times reports:
- Northern California already has seen a deluge of rain, due to a storm system that culminated in a wet New Year’s Eve, while other areas, such as the San Joaquin Valley, have seen winter weather advisories due to strong wind, rain and fog. Now there is “brutal” weather on the way.
- An atmospheric river will arrive in California starting Wednesday and linger through Thursday, according to forecasters. Another is set to arrive Saturday. The weather events will raise the risk for flooding across already saturated areas.
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Luke 21:25-26 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Important Takeaways:
- Potential Pre-Christmas Bomb Cyclone Could Bring Blizzard Conditions In Midwest, High Winds In East
- A major storm will track through the Midwest, Northeast and South through the end of the week.
- The heaviest snow will target the Great Lakes, with over a foot possible for some.
- High winds capable of tree damage and power outages could blast much of the Plains, Midwest and East
- Severe travel impact because of snow, wind and cold is expected from through at least Friday or Saturday.
- As 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 that criteria also depends on a storm’s latitude.
- Meteorologists frequently discuss pressure in terms of millibars, rather than inches of mercury.
- The reason this all matters beyond just a weather geeky statistic is the lower the pressure in a storm, the more intense it is. And the greater difference in pressure over an area, the stronger the winds.
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