NEWS RELEASES
Intense Storm Dubbed The Bomb Cyclone Hitting Central Part of the U.S.
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through National Public Radio's website.
National Public Radio, (NPR) reports on an extreme winter storm bringing blizzard conditions & extremely strong winds to much of the central U.S. Forecasters say it will be one of Colorado's most intense storms. The name bomb cyclone stems from the intensity of this particular storm system where a rapid drop in air pressure leads to very high winds along with heavy precipitation.
According to the news transcript on NPR, host Audie Cornish says: "In the Denver metro area alone, about 200,000 people are without power, and a major interstate remains closed. Colorado Public Radio's Dan Boyce reports on the rare blizzard meteorologists are calling a bomb cyclone." Wind gusts reaching 75 miles per hour are being recorded at Denver International Airport where by midday, all runways had been shut down. The storm is also causing other shutdowns and delays as well. Schools and government offices in Denver and Colorado Springs are closed. Normally jam-packed Interstate 25 between Colorado Springs and Denver is shut down as are many other roads in the region. Bowen's Weather Service office in Boulder tweeted "do not even attempt to drive in this storm - exclamation point." NPR News responder, Dan Boyce in Colorado Springs, also says in an interview on March 13th that snowfall in Colorado will begin to lessen overnight, but it's moving east, pushing out of Colorado into Kansas and deeper into the Midwest.
For the full interview on NPR, click here.