A friend of mine sent me a message this morning telling me I should take a look at a cool Web site, a wind map of the United States: http://hint.fm/wind/.

So,  here’s what I saw (see below). I drew the shape on the map to make it easier for others to see what I see: a face. I see eyes, a nose, a mouth and a beard, among other things. The tip of the nose is right over Denver, and the mouth is the small oval to the bottom right.

What’s going on, weather-wise, over Colorado and other states out west is something the weather folks call a bomb cyclone. I snapped the image below from CNN’s Web site shortly after visiting the wind map site, but the Odin image really gets the point across, don’t you think?

Read More

• https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/bombogenesis.html
• What is a “bomb cyclone”? – The Denver Post
• Denver Weather: Bomb Cyclone Explodes Right On Schedule …
• Bomb cyclone to strike central US – msn.com