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WASHINGTON -When it comes to weather, it's hard to sound scarier than “bomb cyclone.”
It's a version of a real weather term that applies to a massive winter storm that pulled together off the U.S. Southeast coast. But as fearsome as the storm is with high winds and some snow, it may not be quite as explosive as the term sounds.
Meteorologists have used the term “bomb” for storms for decades, based on a strict definition, said University of Oklahoma meteorology professor Jason Furtado.
After it showed up in a Washington Post story on Tuesday, the weather geek term took on a life of its own on social media. The same thing happened four years ago with “polar vortex,” another long-used weather term that was little known to the public until then.
“Bombogenesis is the technical term. Bomb cyclone is a shortened version of it, better for social media,” said Weather. US meteorologist Ryan
NEW YORK -- A man who posed along the East Coast as a millionaire oil tycoon to scam women on internet dating sites out of hundreds of thousands of dollars was sentenced on Thursday to nearly four years in prison.
U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain described John Edward Taylor as sick and dangerous as she ordered him to serve three Maue, who helped popularize polar vortex in 2014.
“The actual impacts aren't going to be a bomb at all,” Maue said. “There's nothing exploding or detonating.”
Storm intensity is measured by central pressure — the lower the pressure, the years and 10 months in prison in addition to 14 months he served after a related Virginia conviction.
The judge said 16 of Taylor's two dozen victims from New York to Atlanta lost from several hundred dollars to more than $ 50,000 after encountering his “quest for money, respect, admiration and control.” She said some stronger. A storm is considered a “bomb” when the pressure drops rapidly — at least 24 millibars in 24 hours.
This storm has dumped freak snow on the Southeast, and all the way up the coast to Maine, and delivered near hurricane- force blistering victims, who lost a total of more than $ 290,000, were left financially ruined while others had credit ratings ruined or were left suffering from fear, depression, anxiety and concern for their personal safety.
The scam ended after a married couple who met Taylor at a Philadelphia Phillies game they attended with their children on April winds. It will also usher in possible record-breaking cold.
Bomb cyclones draw air from polar regions after they leave. In this case, it means extra cold Arctic air because of where the polar vortex is, Furtado said.
Worldwide, about 40 to 25, 2015, reported him to the FBI.
The father, identified in court only as D. S., was among six victims who spoke at the sentencing as Taylor drooped his head at the defense table.
The father said Taylor, 48, boasted he was a billionaire oil tycoon as he led the family, including a child with special needs, onto a (AP PHOTO/MARY ALTAFFER) 50 “bomb cyclones” brew each year, but most are over open ocean and nobody but weather geeks notice, Maue said.
“We use the term bomb,” Furtado said. “We know what it means, but I do think it gets a little hyped up.” (AP) special elevator and down to first- row seats, where everyone from ushers to spectators gushed what a good guy Taylor was.
Only later, the father said, did the family learn Taylor “was a fraud, a fake and a phony.”
The father said his family, which lost a few hundred dollars, was duped by “a very, very charismatic man.”
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- It's so cold in Florida that iguanas are falling from their perches in suburban trees.
Temperatures dipped below 40 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) early Thursday in parts of South Florida, according to the National Weather Service in Miami.
That's chilly enough to immobilize green iguanas common in Miami's suburbs.
Palm Beach Post columnist Frank Cerabino tweeted a photograph of an iguana lying belly-up next to his swimming pool. WPEC-TV posted images of an iguana on its back on a Palm Beach County road.
The cold- blooded creatures native to Central and South America start to get sluggish when temperatures fall below 50 degrees ( 10 degrees Celsius), said Kristen Sommers, who oversees the nonnative fish and wildlife program for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
If temperatures drop below that, iguanas freeze up. "It's too cold for them to move," Sommers said.