3x Bomb Cyclone hitting west coast of Canada and USA
Posted by Due_Recording_6259@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 137 comments
Posted by Due_Recording_6259@reddit | collapse | View on Reddit | 137 comments
MLJ9999@reddit
We're laying in bed in the Cascade foothills outside of Seattle listening to trees coming down in the woods around the house. 250,000 without power. We still have ours, knock on wood.
specialsymbol@reddit
I wonder, did you consider getting a battery to store electricity for a few days?
TigerChow@reddit
A 100 foot oak tree fell on my home, primarily my bedroom, caved the roof in. It was entirely healthy, including the roots, but still, wind was sk bad it wntirelt uprooted. This was last summer during am absolutely insane storm that seemed like it whipped our of nowhere. By some fuckinf miracle, no one was hurt (i had been in there about 15 minutes before it happened, my then 6yo daughter went in there lookong for me and came back out literally moments before it happened. She talked about seeing a crack in the wall before the full cave in happened. Fucking hell, gets me anxious and teary eyed just typing it, thinking how close she was to being in it.
So stay safe through this shit. Don't fuck around with strong winds and trees going down.
liftingshitposts@reddit
This makes me feel less bad about the $9,000 of work we had to remove beetle-damaged Monterey pines from by our house. Had 75mph gusts last fall that would have definitely had them on our house if we didn’t get that work done
MLJ9999@reddit
Ah, man... So sorry to hear this but so glad you and your family are ok. We have a few trees down but none near the house. So trivial compared to your situation. Do you have family near you that yiu will stay with?
TigerChow@reddit
Thankfully it's all resolved now, this was June 2023. But having to wait through insurance and zone permits and conctractor bids and whatnot, we were displaced for 8 freaking months. But yeah, I have a saint of a sister. She and her husband let my family of four and our 6 cats and uncaged bunny live with them the whole time. They have 9 cats. SO MANY LITTER BOXES TO SCOOP XD.
We can joke about it now, just hits me every now and then if I let myself think about my daughter like I mentioned. Some blessings in disguise though, brought my me and my teenage stepdaughter closer together when our relationship had mostly been pretty rocky.
My husband wasn't home, just me and the girls. My stepdaughter was 13 at the time and she really stepped up. She was frozen in shock at first (she was relatively close to my bedroom door when it happened, all 3 of us were in the living room, I had just walked out of the bathroom to them like seconds before it happened,) so I had to grab her and pull her back and shove her behind me cuz she wasn't responding to my yelling to her to move. Then picked up my younger daughter who was on the other side of my stepdaughter, carried her and pushed my stepdaughter ahead of me back to the farthest room from it and tucked them in the door frame of a closet. At that point my stepdaughter snapped out of it and was a huge help taking care of her little sister. Kept her there for me while I went to make sure I could safely get them out the door (back door was under the tree, power went out and it was dark, the tree was so big the branches obscured the windows in the front by near the front door, giant dust cloud had billowed up, so visibility was awful and I couldn't tell what all all collapsed or if it was stable, it was like a freaking bomb went off.) So yeah, my stepdaughter kept her sister safe in place while I checked things out and ran to check on another neighbor who wad also hit, a single mom with a 5yo. Thankfully her son wasn't home and she was ok, but in shock and borderline hysterical and not at all.helpful, haha. And my phone had been in my room and was under the damn tree, so I couldn't call 911 or my SO or anyone. So yeah, my little 13yo stepdaughter stepped up in a big way and until another neighbor finally showed up she was who I had to lean on so I could keep my head clear and handle shit.
So TLDR again, haha, she saw that I can and will protect her when shit hits the fan and I got to see her step up in a way that made me see her in an entirely different light. And we've actually had a really close relationship ever since. I'm not the openly emotional sort, but man, even a days later I was bawling telling her how proud of her I was and all, lol.
Sorry for the trauma dump, I don't talk about this often, and it's like the flood gates open when I do. And that isn't even the whole story XD.
But seriously, I appreciate the kind words and hope all the crazy weather out west now turns out not to be as bad as they predicted.
MLJ9999@reddit
That was a relief knowing it was over and done with. Heck of a story and thanks for letting me know. We have tall fir trees on the east side of our bedroom and I did not have a restful night of sleep, to say the least.
lost_horizons@reddit
Hope the woods don't come and knock on YOU!
the_friendly_dildo@reddit
Not too hard, they're falling down.
MLJ9999@reddit
😂👍
Veganees@reddit
Stay safe my friend!
MLJ9999@reddit
Thanks, friend! Storms over and a few trees down but none near the house. We have power but many don't so all-in-all we're pretty lucky.
Sirspeedy77@reddit
I'm sorry, all wind gusts are busy atm. Please continue to hold and a tree will be with you shortly for you to knock on.
On a side note, we're tucked against the eastside of the cascades. Minimal wind tonight but certainly moist. We're starting the change over to colder temps and snow as of about 45 minutes ago. I fully expect to wake up to a foot if it keeps coming down like this lol.
Oh and my first grandson was born this morning @ 8:30am so we're driving to Silverdale Friday to see him! Provided the wind doesn't wreck the passes too bad.
zefy_zef@reddit
If the ground hasn't frozen well enough those trees are going to come down easy with all that snow.
Remarkable-Ad155@reddit
Congratulations- take it steady on that drive.
HumbleLeader2460@reddit
Thanks for the update MLJ and good luck
absolutmenk@reddit
Sorry to hear. My wife and I just took a road trip to the Pacific NW. Amazing people and landscape. Hold strong. We are on the east coast and haven’t got rain since September when we got back from visiting. We are looking into a generator because the weather has gone so sporadic.
MLJ9999@reddit
Thank you. I think a backup generator is an excellent idea. We got one several years ago and fortunately haven't had to use it yet, but I fire it up every summer to make sure it still works. I think of it as insurance for a possible several-day power outage.
Xubria@reddit
Get one of you can afford it. I have a 3000watt and currently powering my house with electric heat, lights, tv, laptop, and refrigerator while our power is out mid island. Poles down all over the place, transformers blew up, wires down, trees down. Pretty nasty over here. I just keep all my toys topped up with gas so I have tons of fuel to dip into to keep us going for days. I currently have the camper parked outside the front door to use the kitchen and have a hot shower since it's propane.
BobWellsBurner@reddit
180,000 homes (and counting) without power in BC as of 10 pm. Could be a long day tomorrow.
MLJ9999@reddit
Power company (PSE) stopped working on repairs at quite a few locations in the Puget Sound region due to hazardous conditions.
TheHistorian2@reddit
Seattle checking in.
It is officially windy af.
ylena3297@reddit
It honestly didn’t seem so bad on the Eastside but PSE’s estimated power restoration time for us is Saturday. 🥲 Hoping your area is ok!
TheHistorian2@reddit
I’m at one of the highest points on Beacon Hill. Wind raged and shook the house, but I didn’t lose power. Looked around the yard today and it was just some blown leaves and a couple small branches.
Hope you’re back to normal soon!
Illustrious-Flow-441@reddit
Lived in a few places around the country and got to say. Seattle types play up their weather so much! These are people who don’t get much snow, not many days under freezing and not many days over 100. Neighbor last year shoveled snow, there was an inch of snow! You’d think there was 2 feet the way he was talking about it. Atmospheric river and we get an inch. Gets over 85 and holy shit, you’d think we were in the bowels of hell! Not downplaying this event or the heat dome a few years ago, but for the most part, Seattle area folks are weather woosies.
gouji@reddit
1 person died while taking a shower in her house in bellevue.
Due_Recording_6259@reddit (OP)
two people died.
EmmaGoldmansDancer@reddit
Last year out of nowhere suddenly every rain in California was an "atmospheric river." Now a new term, a "bomb cyclone."
Is it just me, or as anyone else confused by all these new terms. How is this different from wind and rain, which is what we get every winter? And if it's just extra wind and rain, how is that not a hurricane?
I'm NOT trying to diminish the seriousness of these weather events. Just feeling like I'm the only one who doesn't know all this lingo. Telling me I'm going to be hit by a bomb cyclone tells me nothing about what I need to do to prepare or what to expect.
Blood-PawWerewolf@reddit
These are well known terms in the weather community. There’s nothing wrong about them, you’re just hearing them more often than usual
propita106@reddit
What's happening seems to be one cold system is sitting there off PNW/Canada, rotating counterclockwise. That rotating motion is pulling moisture from a warmer system over the Pacific. And it just keeps pulling more moisture. The longer the cold system sits there turning, the more moisture is pulls up. And that moisture being pulled up is that "river in the sky." I may be off a bit, I was simplifying.
As for bomb cyclone:
Sounds like a storm (the "cyclone" part) that grows very strong very quickly (the "bomb" part). It grows very strong because the pressure drops quickly and drops A LOT.
CollapseBy2022@reddit
New normal.
Cliché I know, but in early 2023 we basically fast-forwarded into the mid 2030's in terms of global warming. Now we're experiencing "basically 2035" levels of global warming shitfuckery", compared to how it was in 2022 and earlier.
Piper_Dear@reddit
My area was destroyed in a hurricane and we never thought that would happen here in WNC.
Valeriejoyow@reddit
I'm in WNC also. A one in 1000 year storm. We lost power for two weeks and cell service for a week. I try to prep for two weeks and it was a lifesaver to not have to try and get supplies when so many roads were closed.
laeiryn@reddit
They're gonna be every couple years from here on out.
drumdogmillionaire@reddit
I’m not sure a thousand years storm will happen every two years but we can definitely expect more frequent storms.
laeiryn@reddit
Admittedly hyperbolic but I think we all know "once in a millennium" events are about to break with terrifying frequency.
Valeriejoyow@reddit
It's horrifying to think about. I still have nightmares after going through Helene. WNC is still not OK. Many people are homeless after their houses were destroyed and they didn't have flood insurance because they had never flooded before.
laeiryn@reddit
I mean who tf in inland North Carolina expects to get hit by a hurricane ? from the west???
Valeriejoyow@reddit
In the past areas that flooded were close to rivers. No one expected floods of water and debris to come down the mountains.
laeiryn@reddit
It's just not something you think about most of the time. The dirt stays on the ground because that's where gravity put it, right? You don't sit around thinking "gee if one gallon of water weighs eight pounds, and a seventy-five gallon fishtank weighs nearly six hundred pounds, I wonder how much literal inches of rain is going to weigh as it pours itself over a whole ass mountainside - a very old mountainside whose surface is a lot more dirt than stone"
It's just not what folk sit around speculating on (unless the weed is REALLY good). So it's not even something that most people 'should have seen coming' (like the average east coast Floridian who keeps rebuilding after a hurricane). It's so outside of our sphere of understanding, because weather events severe enough to cause such wild shit are supposed to be insanely rare.
Valeriejoyow@reddit
No one was thinking about it. NC really dropped the ball on warnings. We got the mandatory evacuation order after the storm was in full force. I wonder if anyone died because they left their house after getting the order. I thought about driving up into the mountains to avoid flooding but decided we would be safest staying home. That would have been a terrible decision. Sending the evacuation order during the storm was a terrible idea.
Thestartofending@reddit
Speaking of this, i just found the following excerpt in the new Andreas Malm book (Overshoot) :
If "Chances" are revised this quickly and often with this much scope, how are we to trust even the new revisions/models ?
Feels like a similar thing happens with models. We see that the old models have been utterly and absolutely wrong on whatever data can be verified/checked, yet we continue to trust them on futur data.
CollapseBy2022@reddit
I only trust Eliot Jakobsen, Leon Simons, James Hansen, Kevin Andersson and Johan Rockström. :)
aureliusky@reddit
We need a camera fixed on Mar-A-Lago.
I want to play back the video footage of that place getting destroyed by climate change on loop with dipshit on loop saying there's no such thing as climate change.
Red_Stripe1229@reddit
Bomb cyclone sounds like the name of a mixed drink.
mountaindewisamazing@reddit
A good one
Red_Stripe1229@reddit
It will get you bombed!
mountaindewisamazing@reddit
You could say it's the bomb!
Due_Recording_6259@reddit (OP)
i’ll get a double, wait no make that a triple
beard_lover@reddit
We’ve had some rough winters recently here in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Northern California. I’ve lived through some crazy rain storms and I’m suddenly concerned I’m not ready for this storm. We’re looking at a predicted 10” of rain in a week, I can only imagine what this will do to our local creeks and canals. That’s a lot of water in a short amount of time. The wind factor is also concerning.
alacp1234@reddit
I’m more scared of an ARkstorm than the Big One like all of the Central Valley under feet of water plus certain areas of South LA, Sac, and the Bay
liftingshitposts@reddit
DjangoBojangles@reddit
Has there been a big rain on the Chico fire yet? The mountains above Chico are supposed to get over a foot of rain. I bet there's gonna be some crazy debris flows.
Top_Hair_8984@reddit
We had this scenario in 2018 on Vancouver Island. Wind storm after rain enough to thoroughly saturate the ground. We lost hundreds of trees, 400 mm of rain and 100km winds. Our Hydro's largest call out ever, no power for 5 days. This currant storm worries me regarding its duration.
ManliestManHam@reddit
Map shows once-in-a-decade bomb cyclone set to strike like a hurricane Published November 20, 2024 12:59am Updated November 20, 2024 3:35am Comments
A powerful winter storm brewing near the Pacific Northwest is forecast to bring damaging gusts, feet of mountain snow and heavy rain to parts of California, Oregon and Washington that could trigger flooding, mudslides and rock slides in the region (Picture: NOAA) A rare ‘bomb cyclone’ has formed in the Pacific Ocean and threatens to hit the West Coast with the strength of a hurricane.
The strong system packed with powerful winds and heavy will combine with an atmospheric river as it heads toward the Bay Area of Northern on Tuesday night.
An atmospheric river, which is a band of moisture from the Pacific, is expected to dump a month’s worth of precipitation in just three to four days. The hardest hit areas are expected to be north of San Francisco.
The phenomenon also known as ‘bombogenesis’, could intensify so rapidly in the Pacific Northwest that it has the potential of becoming a ‘triple-bomb’ that is three times the strength of a regular bomb cyclone, according to the National Weather Service in San Francisco.
I_PING_8-8-8-8@reddit
The once in a decade event now happening every 3 years.
liftingshitposts@reddit
We had 75mph+ gusts on the California coast earlier this calendar year even
ksck135@reddit
I mean, we've had decades happen in the last three years..
lifepuzzler@reddit
ManliestManHam@reddit
I didn't even know what a bomb cyclone is, and I've been alive for so very many decades.
lifepuzzler@reddit
Yeah I'm going on 4 right now, and this is the first I've heard of it.
twotimefind@reddit
Yeah, last couple years it's been atmospheric river. Which I believe used to be called Banana Express.
Now it's bomb cyclone.
What's next? Terrorizing. Tempest?
HopefulWoodpecker629@reddit
Pineapple Express is a type of atmospheric river carrying warm rain from Hawaii.
A bomb cyclone is a low that deepens 24mb in 24 hours. It can be accompanied by an atmospheric river, like this one, but not necessarily.
They aren’t making terms up out of nothing. It’s not meteorologists fault that you don’t know the definitions of these terms despite the fact they’re almost always defined in articles written by meteorologists
EmmaGoldmansDancer@reddit
So here's why it's confusing to me. What I experienced as an "atmospheric river" in California would be considered normal rainfall when I lived in Florida.
Now I'm told of this new bomb storm that it will be more wind and rain. Ok we had that in Florida too... But it was a hurricane or a tropical storm. How is this not that?
I'm not angry or complaining, just confused. It's not an attack, I just don't understand. Not do I pretend to know how they should name stuff. I'm not going to pretend to understand just to save face. I would rather state my ignorance loudly so folks like you can correct me.
HopefulWoodpecker629@reddit
The hint is in the name! It is a (relatively) thin plume of moisture in the atmosphere. It looks like a river from space. Look at this picture for an example, it’s a river of moisture that extends all the way across the Pacific Ocean.
Atmospheric rivers aren’t necessarily bad. They are often beneficial and it’s how California gets most of its rainfall. Sometimes, they can be destructive for a number of reasons. California has huge mountains and atmospheric rivers are relatively low in atmospheric elevation, so they dump a lot of precipitation in the mountains. When San Francisco gets an inch of rain, the Sierras could get 10” of precipitation. And that translates to feet of snowfall. And if the AR has tropical moisture (aka Pineapple Extress), the precipitation is warm and will melt a lot of snow. All the snow that should slowly get melted over the spring gets flushed into the Central Valley, a former swamp that is home to millions of people. Snowmelt is a huge concern with atmospheric rivers especially later in the season.
Rainfall in Florida is different. They don’t really get atmospheric rivers. A rainfall event in Florida could be caused by different things, for example a cold front from the north, daytime heating causing evaporation of water from the gulf and swamps, or a tropical cyclone.
The Florida equivalent of a bomb cyclone is a bomb cyclone, Florida can get those as well from the Atlantic or the Plains. Bomb cyclones are a type of extratropical cyclone, which are different from tropical cyclones. The tropical cyclone equivalent of bombogensis is rapid intensification.
ShadowPsi@reddit
It's just called that because it's a long band of high moisture content that extends up to the middle latitudes from the tropics. They can hold more water than the Amazon River.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_river
For California, a large percentage of our water comes from them, and annual rainfall totals are largely dependent upon how many hit the state.
laeiryn@reddit
You're right, but it's also not the average rando's fault that they don't know meteorological terms for things that are generally expected to be rare and phenomenal, either. I don't expect the average person to know what the affective filter is when I go on about -my- field of study.
HopefulWoodpecker629@reddit
I’m just annoyed by boomers who say “back in my day we called this rain!”
laeiryn@reddit
Well there have always been these terms for extreme events but they used to be... you know. Extreme events, not annual norms.
Spunknikk@reddit
It's Called a pineapple Express. It's what southern California calls it cuz it usually starts from Hawaii and extends to us. It's a godsend as it's alot of rain and we need it. I'm hoping as climate change happens things flip and LA gets higher than average rains and we become a lush oasis.
Atlest that's my dream.
RogueVert@reddit
I mean, it took what? 2 of those to "end" the drought. I mean 500" of rain is a fuckton
Eve_O@reddit
TIL: I read an article from CBC earlier, an they are called "bomb cyclones" because of the steep drop in pressure that occurs in the eye of the storm.
Oh, I learned just moments ago, from this article, that "bomb cyclone" has been used in the scientific literature "for decades."
"Terrorizing Tempest" has a nice alliterative ring tho. ;)
Spun_pillhead@reddit
Dating back to 1989 specifically, first used by M.E Adams.
ManliestManHam@reddit
oooh oh my God, the pressure drops like a bomb drops. I read about it last night before sleep and that wordplay eluded me!
SoFlaBarbie@reddit
Then you aren’t paying attention. I’m over 4 decades old too and I have heard plenty about them.
Hatertraito@reddit
Well yeah it's once a decade. If you're 4 that's not even half a decade. Start school
lifepuzzler@reddit
Hi dad, I'm four decades.
ManliestManHam@reddit
Right? What the fuck? Bombogenesis sounds familiar, but I think I'm thinking of the bombas in super Mario bros? And this one is going to be 3x stronger? Well okie dang dokie but daaaamn
gmuslera@reddit
The first thing that will collapse will be our language. We will be out of words to describe what will become the new normal. And without words, we will be out of tools to notice when that worsens.
ShadowPsi@reddit
As my teenage son would say: skibidy.
New words are not always a good thing.
Due_Recording_6259@reddit (OP)
The term has been around for a while, it was popularized starting in 2018 when media realized it sounds scary enough to get clicks. https://www.fastcompany.com/40513016/is-bomb-cyclone-even-a-real-thing-the-origin-of-the-scariest-term-in-weather
ManliestManHam@reddit
Ah, so I didn't notice the first time, and now by the second time it's a once a decade 3x bigger bombclone
that's... faster than expected
Veganees@reddit
I also keep being surprised by "new" weather terms. Then again, the weather isn't like anything humans have seen before so we have to use new terms to define it.
"Strong gusts of wind" just doesn't cover what's happening here.
ManliestManHam@reddit
that is so very true. when you're right, you're right!
Due_Recording_6259@reddit (OP)
thats terms based on a static climate in an exponential world for ya
ManliestManHam@reddit
faster than expected could also be 'second verse, same as the first one just a whole lot worse'
cabalavatar@reddit
We've had arguably two or three "once in a decade" hurricanes this year already.
Spun_pillhead@reddit
Dont get me wrong, im the last person to deny collapse and its related events.
But i really doubt this storm is anything collapse related. Storms of similar strength happen every 30 years in this region. The last 2 were the inauguration day storm in 1996 and the columbus day storm in the 60’s
cabalavatar@reddit
I've heard two meteorologists claim that his cyclone will break records. We won't know until it's over whether it's historic, of course, but at least a couple experts predict that it will be.
Spun_pillhead@reddit
Tbf storms of similar strength happen every 25-30 years in this region. Inauguration day cyclone in 1996, and Columbus day storm in 1960’s
Xubria@reddit
Our weather stations off Vancouver Island called for 40 plus foot seas, with the potential to be double what is estimated.
ManliestManHam@reddit
JEEEESUS Jumping H CHRIST that's nuts!
Xubria@reddit
That's what I thought!
ManliestManHam@reddit
Can I come back later and ask how it's going?
Xubria@reddit
If you don't have a weather radio this site is useful to know what is coming https://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/oceans/data-donnees/buoydata-donneebouee/index-eng.html
I also use the windy app for accurate marine weather radar, you can see the storms coming days in advance and tell how the wind will hit head on or glance off the coast.
Xubria@reddit
I never fired up the radio again but have a friend working on the coastal fish farms, still nasty on the coast, we faired well power came back this morning but it is raining extremely hard now with relatively low winds that seem to picking up again. Cell grid was down most of the night, no coms or data was available. I will be equipping our vehicles with CB radios for guaranteed coms seeing how easily the cell grid went down.
Tre_Walker@reddit
No
ManliestManHam@reddit
How's it going where you are, though? And how are you today besides the weather?
temporalwanderer@reddit
Ah, one of the annual hundred-year storms again.
Fabreezy28@reddit
It’s crazy it’s barely even being covered by the news because that’s all political nonsense
ThrAwy-4213@reddit
Explains their strategy of electing the Orange Distraction!
Aprilias@reddit
We should just be glad that's it's not a bomb diggity cyclone
TopspinLob@reddit
In the past we had to way to measure, predict, or photograph these storms.
Due_Recording_6259@reddit (OP)
bro is living in 2035
MaximillionVonBarge@reddit
Almost got crushed by a tree when I was checking on the chickens last night. Jumped right out off my slippers. Hit a few feet away. 4 trees down on our property alone. A few blocked streets, no power anywhere nearby. I expect we’ll be in the dark for a few days at least. We usually get wind storms in the fall/winter but this year was mild except for this one big storm. Unusual.
jonathanfv@reddit
In Vancouver right now. Things aren't alarming outside. Strong winds, but biking to work and back was manageable. But the whole neighbourhood doesn't have electricity, and earlier, my cell network was nearly unusable, probably due to high demand. At some point, I was trying to message a friend on Signal, and it took nearly half an hour for my messages to make it thru.
Reminds me of many things I should always have ready, and of how ridiculously demanding the internet has become, when it comes to how much data is being used. I was trying to check the news about the bomb cyclone, and a lot of the articles loaded video content containing ads. We waste so much bandwidth, it's crazy.
849@reddit
Search and bookmark low bandwidth versions of news sites, bbc and cbc and others do them
DagwudCorneliusXIII@reddit
Something like this works: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tectrasystems.violoncello
stonecats@reddit
no they are not.
they will skirt the coast near WA & OR
then circle back out to sea.
media is just making a big
deal out of this for clickbait.
Due_Recording_6259@reddit (OP)
Storms continue to form stronger and faster than ever before. The sheer scale of this one is jaw dropping, while the quickness of its formation and pressure changes (3 times whats required to be classified as a bomb cyclone) slams into the west coast unexpectedly. This relates to collapse as sea surface temperatures continue to be abnormal, these delicately intertwined facets of the global climate system are not random. This is a tell, a sign of whats to come. Storms will be stronger, intensify faster, and be harder to grasp the path of fully until the threat is imminent.
Vancouver specific article. 24 hours of wind, insane.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/wind-event-bomb-cyclone-impact-metro-vancouver-24-hours-november-2024-9832740
“A significant wind storm is expected to arrive in southern B.C. this afternoon, Nov. 19, bringing wind speeds of 90 km/h to the Salish Sea and gusts of up to 70 km/h to much of Metro Vancouver.
And it's going to be a long one.
The high winds are expected to last 18 to 24 hours starting Tuesday night (Nov. 19) according to Environment Canada meteorologist Brian Proctor, much longer than the typical wind storm in Vancouver.”
"It's going to be a long-duration wind event," says Proctor. "We're looking at something that's going to be 18 to 24 hours in duration of the strongest winds."
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a_dance_with_fire@reddit
The local (Global BC) news stated the storm centre is the equivalent of a category 3 hurricane and that the tip of Vancouver island would be getting the impacts of the equivalent of a category 1
cool_side_of_pillow@reddit
I came to Reddit looking for infor Atom and found it. 18-24 Hours of this wind?! There will be countless downed trees. We are sleeping on the main level. Upstairs is too scary as we have big trees on one side.
haystackneedle1@reddit
Another one on the way Friday, too
lowrads@reddit
A hurricane without storm surge is just a big blow.
fishybird@reddit
Fuck. I heard about this a few days ago, but every youtube weather channel is constantly screaming "THIS WEATHER IS ABOUT TO BE CRAZY" now even for benign storms, so I figured it was the same in this case. I've started ignoring the news at this point. Glad r/collapse is mostly no bullshit haha.
FuckTheMods5@reddit
Yeah the zero attention span clickbait life is tiring.
knowledgeleech@reddit
Due_Recording_6259@reddit (OP)
thanks i tried to post a similar sceenshot but mobile is finicky
JonathanApple@reddit
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn...
Haha I'm in danger
NSFW_hunter6969@reddit
It feels like we live in a real version of the day after tomorrow
Sometimes when my heat kicks on in my house, you can hear that low rumble, I think it's the pole shift wave coming to delete us off existence.
849@reddit
Funny that you say that, magnetic north has been moving at an astonishing rate in the last decade
laeiryn@reddit
I find it deeply comforting that the flipping of the poles is almost certainly one of those things that would probably be happening about now no matter what.
muffinjuicecleanse@reddit
Not going to work on the construction site today as it’ll be miserably windy and rainy (and dangerous), and my work clothes and boots are still soaked from yesterday due to the power outage that’s still affecting so many areas of Vancouver island (and beyond).
Trees down everywhere, transformers exploding all across the area. Driving is sketchy but I ventured out to one of the few open fast food places to charge my phone and get coffee and breakfast. Don’t judge me, if I’m gonna be at home with no power all day I want to be able to use my phone still :p
And this is mild compared to the hurricanes they get in some parts of the world.
These blackouts are are expected in many areas of the island every time we have a wind storm. Our power grid is pretty fragile but not many people get existential dread in a blackout because power always comes back on. It’s not hard to imagine a future where the power isn’t so quick to come back on due to a combination of more intense and numerous/concurrent disasters, supply chain issues, staffing issues, and more variables which coincide as a direct or indirect result of the multiple ongoing crises’ we’ve kicked off.
I’m just glad I have a roof over my head. Can’t imagine what it’s like to be one of the many people around here with nowhere to go.
erock7625@reddit
Woah, it’s been upgraded to a 3x 😱
sir_bastard@reddit
Sounds like a normal day on the East Coast.
Eve_O@reddit
I'm on the island and this is the second strong wind storm we've had in the past week and the third one this month. Third time's the ~~charm~~ bomb, apparently.
Bored and want to check out the power outages? Have a peak here.
zecrito@reddit
Totally sweet
truth-informant@reddit
Rock you like a hurricane!
urlach3r@reddit
Maybe it'll put out the fires.
Seriously, though, feet of snow sounds terrible. We've only got two snowplows here; last time we got one foot of snow, it took the road crews a week to clear all the major highways.
SkyeC123@reddit
Ok, stupid question, and not collapse related… But we were planning to drive from NorCal to Portland on Friday to spend a few days up there.
Is that stupid or no? Can cancel with zero cost up until end of tomorrow… Just don’t want to be “that guy”. Car is a giant Lexus GX460 so that’s all fine and dandy but I’m not trying to “holiday” in total shit either. ;)
HopefulWoodpecker629@reddit
Northern California and Southern Oregon are going to get a shit ton of rain and snow through Saturday. Expect I-5 to be dangerous with flooding at lower elevations, landslides, and a lot of snow in the mountain passes.
EconomyTime5944@reddit
I live in the aftermath of hurricane Milton. Don't go. We had so many looky-loos who got stuck here because no electric/no gas. Hotels were all full. Traffic lights out, and many wrecks because of extra careful drivers mixed with those who were stressed and driving like crazy people. Postpone or go somewhere else. Stay safe friend.
HannahBananaBuTt219@reddit
Yeup,.Not good, bad even,..
Expect more and more and more intense insane fucking weather, all across the globe as no where is safe, that will continue to increase in intensity and number of occurrences, and I mean we’re gonna be falling into hell fast, 6 years, good luck out there and I love you.
miniocz@reddit
That thing is huge... And looking at windy it seems that within a week it will move into pacific, than another cyclone will hit BC, Oregon and Washington and then the first one will return and hit California? Do I understand it correctly?
Due_Recording_6259@reddit (OP)
if windy’s models are correct then yes, but they should hit as moderate storms instead of this shit at least. I didn't catch the first one looping back, good eye!
StatementBot@reddit
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Due_Recording_6259:
Storms continue to form stronger and faster than ever before. The sheer scale of this one is jaw dropping, while the quickness of its formation and pressure changes (3 times whats required to be classified as a bomb cyclone) slams into the west coast unexpectedly. This relates to collapse as sea surface temperatures continue to be abnormal, these delicately intertwined facets of the global climate system are not random. This is a tell, a sign of whats to come. Storms will be stronger, intensify faster, and be harder to grasp the path of fully until the threat is imminent.
Vancouver specific article. 24 hours of wind, insane.
https://www.vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/wind-event-bomb-cyclone-impact-metro-vancouver-24-hours-november-2024-9832740
“A significant wind storm is expected to arrive in southern B.C. this afternoon, Nov. 19, bringing wind speeds of 90 km/h to the Salish Sea and gusts of up to 70 km/h to much of Metro Vancouver.
And it's going to be a long one.
The high winds are expected to last 18 to 24 hours starting Tuesday night (Nov. 19) according to Environment Canada meteorologist Brian Proctor, much longer than the typical wind storm in Vancouver.”
"It's going to be a long-duration wind event," says Proctor. "We're looking at something that's going to be 18 to 24 hours in duration of the strongest winds."
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Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/collapse/comments/1gvj7ff/3x_bomb_cyclone_hitting_west_coast_of_canada_and/ly28ig6/
Mostest_Importantest@reddit
South Oregon coast, here. Atmospheric River is dropping rain like no tomorrow, and the wind is quite active as well.