The Pacific Northwest is now getting Cyclones (Pacific Hurricanes)

I think I speak for many PNW folks when I say we always thought that was more of a Florida thing.

  • StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    On the off chance someone reading is feeling mildly irked by the bombastic language used to describe this fucked up weather, ysk ‘bomb cyclone’ is a technical term in use since the 50s and has a formal definition. TIL (and you can too!)

    Or just scroll down OPs page to the Bomb Cyclone 101 link.

    BC had gusts at almost 160 km/h from this beast yesterday and about 150K people lost power. At the last update I read, about 90K people were still in the dark.

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      12 days ago

      Around 500k without power in the Seattle area.

      (Posted in the dark as I’m told that we should expect power by around noon on Saturday.)

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        12 days ago

        Hopefully this is one of those outages where you feel all cozy, light some candles, your blood pressure goes way down and you’re sharing what’s in your freezer with the neighbours, and not a freezing cold with mobility issues on the 21st floor kind of outage. Stay safe.

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      12 days ago

      We lost power since 1 am last night. Even though we’re in a major city, we won’t have it back till noon tomorrow.