The Weather

[Gary the Enfield]

Could be either but my money's on Long Lane.

Windy down here too. Should be fun watching goalkicks go for corners tonight!

[KeyserSoze]

Got bored and internetted it.

1) It's Leverhulme.

2) It's from last year? http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2013-10 ... n-to-come/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[malcd1]

Got bored and internetted it.

1) It's Leverhulme.

2) It's from last year? http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2013-10 ... n-to-come/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

The cheating bar stewards. I didn't think it looked quite as black out there. Windy with hail and driving rain but still quite bright in Bolton. In fact there has been plenty of blue sky at the moment.

[Bruce Rioja]

I've got to go running about in it tonight, so hopefully we've seen the worst of it now.

[malcd1]

I've got to go running about in it tonight, so hopefully we've seen the worst of it now.

I don't like be the bearer of bad news but........ it isn't getting any better.

[TANGODANCER]

Got bored and internetted it.

1) It's Leverhulme.

2) It's from last year? http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2013-10 ... n-to-come/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

My hand's up. Would have lost my money on that one.

[Bruce Rioja]

Where's this term 'weather bomb' turned up from?

Anyway, we've just been informed that Felixstowe is likely to close at 19:00 tonight for up to 72 hours. So that's us right royally fecked just ahead of the shutdown then.

[Little Green Man]

Where's this term 'weather bomb' turned up from?

Sounds like the kind of apocalyptic crap the tosspots at the Daily Express regularly come up with when forecasting a short period of wintery weather for their imbecilic readership.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Where's this term 'weather bomb' turned up from?

Anyway, we've just been informed that Felixstowe is likely to close at 19:00 tonight for up to 72 hours. So that's us right royally fecked just ahead of the shutdown then.

Glad you asked:

Explosive Cyclogenesis (also referred to as a weather bomb, meteorological bomb, explosive development, or bombogenesis) refers in a strict sense to a rapidly deepening extratropical cyclonic low-pressure area. To enter this category, the central pressure of a depression at 60˚ latitude is typically taken to decrease by 24 mb (hPa) or more in 24 hours.

[Bruce Rioja]

Where's this term 'weather bomb' turned up from?

Anyway, we've just been informed that Felixstowe is likely to close at 19:00 tonight for up to 72 hours. So that's us right royally fecked just ahead of the shutdown then.

Glad you asked:

Explosive Cyclogenesis (also referred to as a weather bomb, meteorological bomb, explosive development, or bombogenesis) refers in a strict sense to a rapidly deepening extratropical cyclonic low-pressure area. To enter this category, the central pressure of a depression at 60˚ latitude is typically taken to decrease by 24 mb (hPa) or more in 24 hours.

That explains what it is (Ergo, a spot of bad weather) we know this. Where has the expression come from? That was my question, and one that I'd have thought you'd be more comfortable answering.

[Worthy4England]

I believe it would only be "a spot of bad weather", should it strike land, North of Watford. More Southerly, and it would be a national disaster, rather than purely a metereological phenomenon.

[Athers]

Bombogenesis is quite the word!

[thebish]

Bombogenesis is quite the word!

their last album was rubbish (as were all the rest!)

[Hoboh]

So now't to do with Putin or ISIS then?
Drat how disappointing!

[malcd1]

Where's this term 'weather bomb' turned up from?

Anyway, we've just been informed that Felixstowe is likely to close at 19:00 tonight for up to 72 hours. So that's us right royally fecked just ahead of the shutdown then.

Someone was explaining on the wireless. Apparently the word has come over from America. Perhaps it was blown over on this current weather bomb?

[Montreal Wanderer]

Where's this term 'weather bomb' turned up from?

Anyway, we've just been informed that Felixstowe is likely to close at 19:00 tonight for up to 72 hours. So that's us right royally fecked just ahead of the shutdown then.

Someone was explaining on the wireless. Apparently the word has come over from America. Perhaps it was blown over on this current weather bomb?

American? Perhaps a translation from the Norwegian.

In the 1940s and 50s meteorologists at the Bergen School of Meteorology began informally calling some storms "bombs" because they developed with a ferocity rarely, if ever, seen over land. By the 1970s the terms "explosive cyclogenesis" and even "meteorological bombs" were being used by MIT professor Fred Sanders (building on work from the 1950s by Tor Bergeron), who brought the term into common usage in a 1980 article in the Monthly Weather Review.

[Bruce Rioja]

Where's this term 'weather bomb' turned up from?

Anyway, we've just been informed that Felixstowe is likely to close at 19:00 tonight for up to 72 hours. So that's us right royally fecked just ahead of the shutdown then.

Someone was explaining on the wireless. Apparently the word has come over from America. Perhaps it was blown over on this current weather bomb?

American? Perhaps a translation from the Norwegian.

In the 1940s and 50s meteorologists at the Bergen School of Meteorology began informally calling some storms "bombs" because they developed with a ferocity rarely, if ever, seen over land. By the 1970s the terms "explosive cyclogenesis" and even "meteorological bombs" were being used by MIT professor Fred Sanders (building on work from the 1950s by Tor Bergeron), who brought the term into common usage in a 1980 article in the Monthly Weather Review.

And where's Fred Sanders from? Fred Sanders not being a common name over Bergen way.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Where's this term 'weather bomb' turned up from?

Anyway, we've just been informed that Felixstowe is likely to close at 19:00 tonight for up to 72 hours. So that's us right royally fecked just ahead of the shutdown then.

Someone was explaining on the wireless. Apparently the word has come over from America. Perhaps it was blown over on this current weather bomb?

American? Perhaps a translation from the Norwegian.

In the 1940s and 50s meteorologists at the Bergen School of Meteorology began informally calling some storms "bombs" because they developed with a ferocity rarely, if ever, seen over land. By the 1970s the terms "explosive cyclogenesis" and even "meteorological bombs" were being used by MIT professor Fred Sanders (building on work from the 1950s by Tor Bergeron), who brought the term into common usage in a 1980 article in the Monthly Weather Review.

And where's Fred Sanders from? Fred Sanders not being a common name over Bergen way.

Fred was evidently from Boston but he appears to have developed the terminology from the Bergen chaps 30 years later. Oh never mind.

[Bruce Rioja]

Where's this term 'weather bomb' turned up from?

Anyway, we've just been informed that Felixstowe is likely to close at 19:00 tonight for up to 72 hours. So that's us right royally fecked just ahead of the shutdown then.

Someone was explaining on the wireless. Apparently the word has come over from America. Perhaps it was blown over on this current weather bomb?

American? Perhaps a translation from the Norwegian.

In the 1940s and 50s meteorologists at the Bergen School of Meteorology began informally calling some storms "bombs" because they developed with a ferocity rarely, if ever, seen over land. By the 1970s the terms "explosive cyclogenesis" and even "meteorological bombs" were being used by MIT professor Fred Sanders (building on work from the 1950s by Tor Bergeron), who brought the term into common usage in a 1980 article in the Monthly Weather Review.

And where's Fred Sanders from? Fred Sanders not being a common name over Bergen way.

Fred was evidently from Boston but he appears to have developed the terminology from the Bergen chaps 30 years later. Oh never mind.

But not happy with that he had to do what all Yanks do and come up with their own claptrap.

[Dujon]

I can't recall seeing or hearing the term 'weather bomb' or such similar term, even in the various media in this country (most of which are experts in using inapt words at the slightest opportunity).

In the last week or ten days where I live we have had just one day where we were storm free - and on that one I heard distant rumbles. Old Zeus has certainly been throwing his favourite weapon around with gay abandon. He's killed at least two people in his exuberance and injured quite a few more. One of those was a youngster who was caught on the beach as a storm front thundered through, the other a fifty-odd year old who was struck as he was loading shopping into his car.

I keep a fair watch on the weather as I run a weather station and an associated web site ( http://www.blaxlandweather.com" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; if you're interested). Unlike the UK Met. Bureau the local Bureau of Meteorology provides a lot of information via its web site free of charge. Perhaps that's why the local media tend to use 'proper' terms for their reports.