{"id":121839,"date":"2018-01-06T13:07:43","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T07:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=121839"},"modified":"2018-01-06T13:07:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T07:37:43","slug":"the-bomb-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/the-bomb-cyclone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bomb cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People on the US east coast dealing with a winter storm that is set to deliver plunging temperatures, strong winds, blizzards and coastal flooding have been provided with a suitably stark term for the experience \u2013Bomb cyclone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration defines the \u201cbomb\u201d phenomenon as being a mid-latitude cyclone that rapidly intensifies as cold air collides with warm air, typically over warmer ocean waters. This process causes a steep drop in atmospheric pressure of at least 24 millibars over 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-121840 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/https_2F2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com2Fuploads2Fcard2Fimage2F6872622Ff345573b-72b1-4572-9324-67c3ee5bb855.jpg\" alt=\"The Bomb cyclone\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/https_2F2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com2Fuploads2Fcard2Fimage2F6872622Ff345573b-72b1-4572-9324-67c3ee5bb855.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/https_2F2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com2Fuploads2Fcard2Fimage2F6872622Ff345573b-72b1-4572-9324-67c3ee5bb855-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u2018bomb\u2019 is in reference to the speed of the change; the real significant difference will be the increase in wind that is whipped up,\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There will be a huge impact from the wind and coastal flooding. It will be brutally cold. We really hope people will hunker down and stay indoors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs long as people understand what bomb means in this context, it\u2019s helpful for the speed of preparation for the storm,\u201d said Kelly Lombardo, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Connecticut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People on the US east coast dealing with a winter storm that is set to deliver plunging temperatures, strong winds, blizzards and coastal flooding have been provided with a suitably stark term for the experience \u2013Bomb cyclone. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration defines the \u201cbomb\u201d phenomenon as being a mid-latitude cyclone that rapidly intensifies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[62494,62495,62491,71,62493,40437,1233,62492],"class_list":["post-121839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-blizzards","tag-bomb-cyclone","tag-east-coast","tag-people","tag-strong-winds","tag-temperatures","tag-us","tag-winter-storm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/bombcyclone2-1418.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}