This Year's First Blizzard Is Da Bomb!

The first great weather phenomenon has arrived just in time for the news to ramp up again after the holiday break. It’s time for all the indoor weather forecasters to get put out in the middle of awful weather conditions to make it look like they are hearty troopers rather than party poopers.

It’s being dubbed…The BOMB CYCLONE! Not that they’d expect any of their viewers to really understand the term, but they get to say “bomb” and “cyclone,” in the same title, which sounds like it would be a hit disaster film.

This storm received various unofficial names (other than the unprintable ones used by those suffering through it on the way to work in the morning). Some of the more colorful names are: Storm Grayson,  Explosive Cyclogenesis, The Blizzard of 2018 (which old-timers will wistfully use to describe it to the youngins 50 years from now), and Storm Brody. The storm was also dubbed a "historic bomb cyclone" by meteorologists who love explosive hyperbole. But, given the fact that most people skip over the news weather reports like they skip over a vitamin supplement information about “steroids on steroids,” the weather casters have to take what they get and run with it.

Of course, we here on the West Coast find it a challenge to be sympathetic to snow issues. For us, snow is something you visit in the mountains in the winter, nothing to be feared. We get a little frost now and again but for most of us, our biggest frost danger comes from our freezers going ice-crazy.

But of course, just you wait - the next earthquake will hit and you’ll hear our weather people calling it the Megathrust Earthquake of 2018!

Oh, well, East Coast Weather people, just remember: There’s no business like snow business!