It clearly shows the storm’s impressive size and accompanying atmospheric river. According to the Earth Observatory, the intensification of the storm from a cyclone into a bomb cyclone was more than double what is necessary to make such a classification.
What does a bomb cyclone look like from space?
Answer: Bad.
Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Lauren Dauphin, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE, GIBS/Worldview, and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)
The NASA Earth Observatory has released a satellite image of the bomb cyclone that hit the Pacific Northwest this week, and it is something to behold. The image was taken Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s JPSS-1 satellite’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite.
It clearly shows the storm’s impressive size and accompanying atmospheric river. According to the Earth Observatory, the intensification of the storm from a cyclone into a bomb cyclone was more than double what is necessary to make such a classification.
The system pummeled the Pacific Northwest with hurricane-force winds of up to 77 mph that knocked out power for nearly 600,000 people just in the state of Washington. Two people were killed by falling trees. The accompanying atmospheric river is projected to drop 12 to 16 inches of rain in parts of Oregon and California by Friday.
It clearly shows the storm’s impressive size and accompanying atmospheric river. According to the Earth Observatory, the intensification of the storm from a cyclone into a bomb cyclone was more than double what is necessary to make such a classification.
