Winter Storrm Grayson

[William Davis]

We had strong wind in Virginia Beach, recorded gust to 50 mph. Few of the offshore buoys recorded 70 knots. Hard to say how much snow, some spots my house 12 inch drifts others 2 inches . Good thing it went through fast, we get tidal flooding from long periods high winds storm passed during low tide. Did not see any real damage.

I expect it could have been worse in New England, storm seemed to move further offshore. Weather Bouy on George’s Bank recorded very high wind and sea. 45 feet on the 5th.

I will say over 50 years experience on the waterfront including a weather forecasting correspondence course while in the CG I never heard of a “ Bomb Cyclone” Do they make these names up for TV ratings ?

William

[Kensal Rise]

Originally Posted by William Davis

...I will say over 50 years experience on the waterfront including a weather forecasting correspondence course while in the CG I never heard of a “ Bomb Cyclone” Do they make these names up for TV ratings ?

William

YES! Dean said it previously. And just yesterday I heard that these current storm "names" (like Grayson) are NOT attached by the National Weather Service.

They are a total creation of The Weather Channel. Why? Ratings and viewership!

How's that? Because any storm with a "name" is subconsciously connected to a hurricane, which is presumed to be horrific. And BAD weather gets viewers. Nobody tunes in to hear how sunny, warm and pleasant it is.

[stumpstalker]

Grayson; Bomb Cyclone; El Nino; Polar Vortex; rip currents -- all either concocted or adopted for show business. Action; horror or disaster movie-name stuff.

Current (11:06 a.m.) objective facts from the weather observatory a-top Mount Washington, New Hampshire:

Wind speed: 77mph
temp.: -34
wind chill: -86

REC

[Kurt Sauers]

Originally Posted by William Davis

We had strong wind in Virginia Beach, recorded gust to 50 mph. Few of the offshore buoys recorded 70 knots. Hard to say how much snow, some spots my house 12 inch drifts others 2 inches . Good thing it went through fast, we get tidal flooding from long periods high winds storm passed during low tide. Did not see any real damage.

I expect it could have been worse in New England, storm seemed to move further offshore. Weather Bouy on George’s Bank recorded very high wind and sea. 45 feet on the 5th.

I will say over 50 years experience on the waterfront including a weather forecasting correspondence course while in the CG I never heard of a “ Bomb Cyclone” Do they make these names up for TV ratings ?

William

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