News organizations, weather forecasters and numerous people on social media have been calling the storm approaching California a “bomb cyclone.” But a meteorologist at the National Weather Service says she's uncomfortable with that name.
News organizations, commercial weather forecasters and numerous people on social media have been calling the storm approaching California this week a “bomb cyclone,” but Kathy Hoxsie, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Oxnard, is uncomfortable with that name.
What everyone can agree on is that a powerful, cold, low-pressure system packing strong winds will continue to deepen through Tuesday night as it moves down the West Coast. It will bring rain, mountain snow and cold temperatures to Southern California on Wednesday and Thursday. Satellite images of this week’s storm show it turning in a counterclockwise direction, trailing a long cold front and looking like an enormous white comma.
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