The storm system that struck California yesterday qualified as a bomb cyclone – here's what that means and why the term is rooted in meteorology:
It wasn't a hurricane, but it resembled one on radar.
Some Bay Area residents also noted the sky was similar to what you might see in the eye of a hurricane."I must say I have never seen a storm like this here in the Bay Area," Burt told weather.com in an email. He added it is very rare for a storm like this to unfold in the daylight hours in the Bay Area.led by Robert Fritzen from Northern Illinois University found about 7% of all nontropical low-pressure systems near North America from 1979 to 2019 were bomb cyclones.
Over that temperature contrast, a powerful, intensifying jet-stream disturbance forces air to rise, kicking off the bombogenesis process. That goes back to these storms getting their fuel from the temperature contrast and aforementioned powerful jet-stream disturbances. Both of those ingredients are more common in the cooler months.In the case of the California bomb cyclone, as alluded to earlier, damaging winds raked across parts of California, particularly from Santa Cruz into the Bay Area.
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