{"id":182101,"date":"2024-02-06T04:24:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/how-a-bomb-cyclone-helped-fuel-californias-deadly-storm"},"modified":"2024-02-06T04:24:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T10:24:54","slug":"how-a-bomb-cyclone-helped-fuel-californias-deadly-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/how-a-bomb-cyclone-helped-fuel-californias-deadly-storm","title":{"rendered":"How a \u2018bomb cyclone\u2019 helped fuel California\u2019s deadly storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-a-bomb-cyclone-helped-fuel-californias-deadly-storm3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-02-05\/stunning-rain-mudslides-flooding-thrash-southern-california-dangerous-storm-isnt-done\">deadly storm<\/a> that is <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2024-02-05\/storm-pummels-l-a-hillsides-and-canyons-mud-boulders-and-a-baby-grand-piano\">walloping California<\/a> with hurricane-force winds and record amounts of rainfall was fueled in part by the powerful weather phenomenon known as a \u201cbomb cyclone,\u201d according to the National Weather Service office in Monterey, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those keeping score, it also looks like it reached \u2018bomb\u2019 status,\u201d a weather service forecast issued Sunday evening said.<\/p>\n<p>The meteorologists who took over on Monday morning <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/forecast.weather.gov\/product.php?site=MTR&issuedby=MTR&product=AFD&format=CI&version=3&glossary=0\" target=\"_blank\" >clarified<\/a> that their colleagues were talking about \u201cBomb, meaning the intensity of the low pressure, not bomb meaning awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadly storm that is walloping California with hurricane-force winds and record amounts of rainfall was fueled in part by the powerful weather phenomenon known as a \u201cbomb cyclone,\u201d according to the National Weather Service office in Monterey, Calif. \u201cFor those keeping score, it also looks like it reached \u2018bomb\u2019 status,\u201d a weather service forecast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}