Powerful ‘bomb cyclone’ could trigger 50 mph winds in Ozarks:
A powerful “bomb cyclone” storm that’s expected to bring blizzard conditions to the high plains states has prompted a high wind advisory today for Springfield and southwest Missouri.
The National Weather Service in Springfield said wind gusts of up to 50 mph are likely in our area through 10 p.m. Wind gusts up to 40 mph are expected through Thursday.
The high wind and relatively dry air is increasing the risk of wildfires in the Ozarks.
Spoiler alert: It is neither a bomb nor a cyclone, both of which mean different things, and cyclone is another meteorological phenomenon that serves as a poor metaphor for the rotation of a low pressure system. Also, bomb is a sudden explosion metaphor, and a low pressure system is not a sudden or fast thing.
Why not call it a regional coldnado? Or should I not give the headline writers at Weather.com ideas?
You know what we call wind gusts of up to 50 miles per hour at Nogglestead? Normal for spring.
I am starting to get the sense that all the meterologists are millenials whose life experience consists of reading contemporary reports of how nothing has ever been like this before.
