Bomb Cyclone Weather Events, Texas Power Grid Reliability
Severe winter weather across 45 states prompts a discussion on the technical definition of a bomb cyclone, requiring a 24-millibar pressure drop within 24 hours. The 2021 Texas power grid failure is compared to current national grid struggles during extreme cold. Claims are made that recent flight cancellations attributed to weather were actually caused by pilot shortages and staff walkouts at Southwest Airlines.
bomb cyclone· texas power grid· weather phenomenon· polar vortex· climate change
00:00 It looks like the Great Wall of China. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Sunday December 25th 2022 this is your award-winning Get My Nation Media assassination episode 1515 This is no agenda Celebrating Christmas and unlike the M5M we're broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region number 6 in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry And from Northern Silicon Valley Merry Christmas! I'm John C. Dvorak It's crackpot and buzzkill! In the morning... Woohoo! Well, Merry Christmas. Jean? Joyeuse How is the weather? How is your bomb doing? Funny you should ask 45 states from Washington down to Texas up to Maine are on alert right now for severe cold wind snow and flooding New York is among the latest states to declare an emergency shutting down part of I-90 to commercial traffic blizzard warnings have been issued in 10 States but the biggest story
01:00 is the extreme cold extending all the way to Florida. Some areas of the country have seen temperatures drop 70 degrees in 18 hours and today a so-called bomb cyclone setting up over the northeast, a flash freeze will be making travel treacherous. A flash flood will make travel... a flash freeze will make travel treacherous. Nice alliteration! Yeah, the big story is that maybe it wasn't the Texas, the crappy Texas grid two years ago Maybe, maybe it just wasn't that As we are burning 90% of all our energy right now coming from coal and gas primarily, coal and nuclear
01:41 and a small bit from wind, and now we see that all the other states are having the same problems we had because you know their grid is shitty I guess. It's really quite amazing. Yeah it just suits the narrative so i picked up this clip because this is... You keep hearing this two years ago we had a bomb cyclone yes Although this is the one once in a generation according to everybody. We had one two years ago We've actually had one it turns out for every year for the past three years I don't remember when last year no well, let's play your clip first and then we'll Why is this explanation of bomb cyclone? Do you know what the there's an actually technical explanation? I found it Is this bomb cyclone defined
02:31 Yes, it is defying. What is a bomb cyclone? It's a weather phenomenon when you have a low-pressure system colliding with a high pressure system It drives down a bunch of cold air creates a bunch of wind and usually precipitation It is marked by a drop in the barometer of 24 millibars over a 24 hour period now I've been tracking I've tracked 14 millibars, so unfortunately for all the suffering. I think we're going to fall a little short of earning your bomb cyclone merit badge will be our final call to the meteorologist and just a hack at these things what you did get is a lot of flight cancellations Seattle Tacoma Airport in particular they got dumped on with freezing rain and that ice storm
03:08 Yeah, this is again a lot of horse shit. Merry Christmas. This was once, yes there were some weather events in the aviation system but I have all kinds of reports mainly Southwest was canceling and they canceled the most flights because they had no pilots remember it's near the end of the month they literally did not have the pilot they also had a hundred and fifty rampers walk out in Denver
04:01 Walked off the job and I have proof of that. Yeah, I have a memo what's in the show notes So none of this was really that necessary Of course maybe you know Maybe some airports really had bad weather but a lot of it is just the same old lack of personnel lack of staff that they just keep covering up with all kinds of weather events and And here's proof that we've had three in the past three years. From 9 News Colorado A single storm like this can't be blamed on climate change and its occurrence can't refute it either. Here's what the research is showing about the connection Scientists have proven that human activity is causing the entire atmosphere to warm, but they've also discovered that the Arctic is warming at a much faster pace
05:00 than it is in the United States. That can cause more chaotic weather patterns, leading to more extreme polar vortex outbreaks in the future Here's how it works The polar jet stream controls the weather patterns in the US When the Arctic is extremely cold that jet moves fast and remains in a tighter circle reducing the chances of the most extreme polar air from escaping to the south But since the Arctic- Holy crap did he say Xscaping? Did he say Xscaping?! Let's watch this again. ...of the most extreme polar air from escaping to the south... You did! Yeah, you did. But since the Arctic is not as cold as it used to be The smaller temperature gradient is causing the polar jet stream to slow and become more wavy That increases the chances of arctic outbreaks in the states A possible result is more extreme single-day cold events while overall seasonal temperatures increase
05:55 And there's data to support that. There has now been three extreme polar vortex outbreaks in three consecutive years. Besides this week, there was one in February of 2021 which crippled much of the nation's power grid in Texas and another one in September 2020 that brought the earliest freeze in history to Denver Colorado and yet the average fall and winter temperatures on the front range have been steadily on the rise over the last 60 years. Science! Yeah, there you go. Well hold on... Science! I disagree with your thesis My thesis? I have no thesis He talks about the polar vortex The polar vortex and the bomb cyclone are two separate entities Good point
06:42 The polar vortex did take place last year, but we didn't have a bomb cyclone for two years. It was two years ago because that's the first time I ever heard the term bomb cyclone and now of course this guy who talked about bomb cyclone on my clip mentions the fact that it is technically supposed to be at 25 millibar drop in 24 hours of the barometer, but he only could record 14. So maybe this is not really a bomb vortex either or bomb cyclone I miss getting mixed up. Well how about 30 millibar drop? Is that what you said? 24. 24 millibars...is that anything like two quarters of negative GDP because that's exactly just saying just so you know that's not a recession anymore
07:31 That's not them. Oh goodness, well anybody everybody how you doing? Merry Christmas to all We are live which is what we always do if the show falls on a by any day holiday We're always rolling and we're happy to be here and happy to see lots of trolls hanging out and everyone having a good time Yeah, most of the country is frozen under I feel bad for... Not here, it's 60 degrees here. It's fine. No! It's about let me see i think it's 20 probably about 25 right now where we are so not too bad and beautiful clear skies is just that the perfect to it's the perfect Christmas day really is you didn't get your snow? You didn't get a white Christmas? Did not get a white Christmas at all because its racist but also ice is racist these days too did you know that
