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A historic “bomb cyclone” has caused multiple deaths and mass power outages after slamming into Seattle, Washington, as it charts a destructive path through California and Oregon.
A storm, or cyclone, is essentially a giant spinning vacuum in the atmosphere. When a storm's central pressure drops 0.71 of an inch of mercury inches (24 millibars) or more in 24 hours or less ...
On Thursday, rain poured across the northern edge of the state, slowly moving south. Santa Rosa Airport saw 4.93 inches of rain, shattering its previous daily record of 0.93 inches in 2001.
A powerful extratropical cyclone developed c. November 18, 2024, in the Northeast Pacific and struck the Western United States and Western Canada. [9] [10] The storm underwent bombogenesis, rapidly dropping its central pressure [11] to a record-tying level of 942 millibars (27.8 inHg). [9]
A bomb cyclone pounding Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and strong winds was already blamed for two deaths and will likely fuel flooding, rock slides, debris flows ...
Hurricanes that affect California are mainly the remnants of hurricanes or tropical storms. In the twentieth century, only four eastern Pacific tropical cyclones have brought tropical storm-force winds to the Continental United States: the 1939 Long Beach Tropical Storm, Tropical Storm Joanne in 1972, Tropical Storm Kathleen in 1976, and Tropical Storm Nora in 1997.
Fire risk. The storm comes just two weeks after the Mountain fire destroyed or damaged more than 350 homes in Ventura County. That fire was fueled by dry conditions and intense Santa Ana winds ...
The cyclone was estimated to have caused at least several hundred million dollars in damages, on the U.S. West Coast. [5] The bomb cyclone was compared to the Columbus Day Storm of 1962, in terms of ferocity and impacts. While both systems were powerful cyclones that had severe effects on the Pacific Northwest, the October 2021 cyclone was the ...