its a shortened - and sensational version of a meteorological term

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bombogenesis.html


but as many have said - the naming of snow storms is a marketing gambit from the weather channel -

if i was naming them - they'd all have four letters :biglaugh:


seriously- in the north east - this stuff happens every year - the media spreads panic- people rush to stores and buy more milk and bread than they can use in a month-

the plow truck drivers get some overtime - and i use the 4WD to take my wife to her office -

wait for the melt

repeat as needed until March

The entire Northeast actually.

I can certainly agree that I haven't seen a worse snow storm than the '78 blizzard. It started on Feb. 6 of '78 and I couldn't get home for three days and nights and Kathy was home with two little girls worrying about me while I was worrying about them.
Then on Feb. 6th of '79 I crashed into a tree when I was forced off the road... and I didn't get home for almost eight weeks.:banghead:





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Real Meteorologists don't say 'bomb cyclone' or 'Category Five' hurricane.

because they are scientists not marketers

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Damn straight they are. I know one whose father sold his BHE20 so she could get her Masters degree.

And you should damn well be proud Pal

Maybe I'll just go fishin'...





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Certainly am, Jim. The bigger markets (she’s in NOLA) are that much harder for girls to crack the glass ceiling. She might have made chief when she was up in Myrtle Beach, but they didn’t pay much. I have mixed emotions about her chucking it but she’s co-anchoring a big cable sports show. She hunts, fishes, free dives. If I could just get her to put that auto loader down and shoot a Parker.

Poor baby. I'll trade you in a heatbeat.:):crying:

Anybody remember the late 1970's in the northeast? They were so bad we were told it was the beginning of a new Ice Age. I wonder if Leonard Nimoy regretted participating in this TV show.



I survived the Bombogenisis of January 2018