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.

    • meep_launcher@lemm.eeOP
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      4 hours ago

      I’m afraid not. Not even in the “I’m Matt and I work in sales but my dream is to do standup professionally so I started going to dive bars in Chicago but get absolutely shit faced before I go up and decide I can just whiff it to an audience of 3 who are in the same boat and aren’t laughing because they are all reading their own notes” kinda way.

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    13 hours 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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      29 minutes 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.)