‘Bomb’ blizzard buried cars and homes with more than 12 feet of snow in parts of Newfoundland

By Andrew Freedman and Hannah Knowles @ WashingtonPost.com, January 18 at 2:58 PM

[....] The storm was a meteorological “bomb,” having undergone a process of rapid intensification known as bombogenesis. With its central air pressure dropping quickly, the storm drew surrounding air into its center, causing sustained winds in some parts of Newfoundland and Labrador to reach 74 mph or greater, with higher gusts. The winds combined with the heavy snowfall to create whiteout conditions [....]

While the storm was relatively short in duration, it was unusually ferocious even for an area used to powerful ocean storms during the winter — “as severe a blizzard as St. John’s metro has ever seen,” tweeted one meteorologist, the Weather Network’s Chris Scott, who placed the tempest “in an elite class with some of the most infamous nor’easter/Atlantic seaboard storms ever.” [....]

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