By DAVE ORNAUER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 31, 2020
6:45 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 31, Alaska time: A weather phenomena called a “bomb cyclone” is being labeled one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the northern Pacific Ocean, has lashed Shemya Island in Alaska with 83-mph gusts and could bring “multiple feet” of snow to western Honshu, according to weather officials and a story by The Washington Post. It’s not a typhoon or anything tropical in nature. But the system, which is taking on the shape of a giant comma swirl of clouds, already qualifies as the strongest storm on record to hit Alaska, according to a climate scientist at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. It’s similar in nature to extreme cyclones that formed in the same area in 2014 and 2015.
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By JASON SAMENOW, ANDREW FREEDMAN | The Washington Post | Published: December 31, 2020 A powerhouse storm explosively intensifying in the northern Pacific could rank as the strongest nontropical cyclone observed in that ocean basin. The storm s pressure has already dropped to 921 millibars on New Year s Eve, which is even lower than extreme cyclones that formed in the same vicinity in 2014 and 2015. It now qualifies as the strongest storm on record to hit Alaska, according to Rick Thoman, a climate scientist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks. The lower the pressure, generally, the stronger the storm. The two northern Pacific cyclones that set records in 2014 and 2015 saw their pressures level off at around 924 millibars, which means this storm has eclipsed their intensities.