Weather Bomb Incoming
Mushrooming with Shaggy Sat Oct 23rd All the Maple varieties are also becoming more colourful Heat Domes, Atmospheric Rivers and now Weather Bomb/Bomb Cyclone. Descriptions of weather phenomena seem to be getting increasingly more colourful. The latter is the latest due to arrive on these shores. Reports are suggesting there could be up to 2ft of rain and 8ft of rain in parts of the west coast North America. It's being welcomed in parts of Northern California where some forest fires are still burning. In old speak, a 'low' would have developed mid-pacific followed by rapid drop in pressure of 24 millibars or more which is defined as a 'bomb cyclone'. Bring back the stick on felt clouds to the weather forecast I say. Saturday morning was just drizzle, the bomb had not yet detonated. We are in the black circle on the weather chart. We are in the circle The Quins V Bath rugby game was on as I started to write this. Bath didn't win, but ...