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. “That’s a little too sensational,” said Hoxsie, who prefers to simply call the system a deep low. “We’re not ready to call it a bomb cyclone. AdvertisementA cyclone is the meteorological term for a system of winds that rotate inward toward low atmospheric pressure. This week’s storm was expected to drop 37 millibars during an 18-hour period, according to the National Weather Service, and would fit the definition of a bomb cyclone, Hoxsie conceded.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 27, 2019 04:18 UTC