# Name the next scary weather phenomenon **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 3, 2018, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795 "2018-01-03T13:57:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/21 "2018-01-03T17:32:19Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Severe Trumperstorms. Which start out as trumpical depressions. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/22 "2018-01-03T17:59:31Z")
Zephyr of Sorrow. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/23 "2018-01-03T18:37:02Z")
Flaming Hail. Extra points if you get the film reference. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/24 "2018-01-04T00:37:01Z")
Shitstorm! ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/25 "2018-01-04T00:53:56Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Ages ago, the term “El Nino” was a worrying harbinger of odd weather patterns. But society has since decided that “The Little Boy” isn’t actually a term to inspire terror,… Tell that to Hiroshimians. But in play, [Scrambles the Death Dealer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDqwlAU2QYs) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/26 "2018-01-04T00:59:38Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Oooh, a bipolar vortex! :: golf clap :: Evil Death Zephyr of Doom. Flesh-Eating Chill. [Moose Trapper](https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/01/03/snowmobilers-rescue-moose-buried-neck-deep-in-snow.html). Sunscorcher. Sub-Optimal Rainfall Pattern. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/27 "2018-01-04T01:14:41Z")
Slaughter sleet. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/28 "2018-01-04T01:36:14Z")
> [@yellow\_sausage\_bandit](#): > > If our weather can have depressions, why not psychotic episodes too? 😃 If we can have freezing rain, why not boiling snow? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/29 "2018-01-04T01:52:36Z")
This: > [@Sailboat](#): > > Death Spiral. explains this: > [@pulykamell](#): > > Indeed. Oooo, the moon is slightly bigger and slightly brighter. When it hits, we’re all dead! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/30 "2018-01-04T01:55:46Z")
Multiple Mega-microburst Mayhem ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/31 "2018-01-04T01:58:06Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Flaming Hail. > Extra points if you get the film reference. He’ll save every one of us! Great, now I have to think of something else… ---
**Author:** ![The\_Vorlon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@The\_Vorlon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Vorlon)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/32 "2018-01-04T02:02:53Z")
The idiot surfers were out in Slurpee waves. Paging Darwin… ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/33 "2018-01-04T02:05:34Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Flaming Hail. > Extra points if you get the film reference. Pretty sure it was “[Hot Hail](https://y.yarn.co/e9d76d71-6be5-45a3-96c7-b0407d1ef7ed_screenshot.jpg)” ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/34 "2018-01-04T02:10:17Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Snowmageddon. Already used as the title of a [bad disaster movie](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/snowmageddon/), even if it was supernaturally caused snow. Motion to strike under the Sharknado rule. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/35 "2018-01-04T02:18:31Z")
Magma tornado. Superheated steam hurricane. Razorblade whirlwind. Laser lightning. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/36 "2018-01-04T02:26:00Z")
Hee, I’m starting to think this should go into Thread Games! Y’all are cracking me up. So far, bipolar vortex wins the thread. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/37 "2018-01-04T02:43:31Z")
> [@boffking](#): > > "Bomb cyclone"refers to a storm undergoing [bombogenesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesis). The term has been used for decades. I prefer Explosive Cyclogenesis myself. (Possibly because those are about the only two words I understood.) ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/38 "2018-01-04T03:56:27Z")
Hemorrhagic sleet Bubonic derecho Steampunk thunderstorm ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/39 "2018-01-04T08:03:02Z")
Menage a tornado Drizzling shit ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795/40 "2018-01-04T13:30:11Z")
It’s an Arctic Subduction Eruption! And I feel fine. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-the-next-scary-weather-phenomenon/805795.md?page=3)