Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t rain that much in San Francisco. A few dozen times a year it does. Very occasionally, it rains an unusual amount. Today it rained 0.83”, which is kind of a lot, I guess.

Local media and Twitterati (now newly christened armchair meteorologists), not ones to let a kinda-maybe-almost-but-not-really catastrophe go to waste, dramatically dubbed this THE BOMB CYCLONE. In a flashback to her greatest hits of 2020, London Breed heroically ordered residents to stay home.

By comparison, during an actual adverse weather event like hurricane Ian in Florida last year, the state saw rainfalls of 10 to 20” over a four-day period, ~3 to 6x daily what SF saw today. Tokyo’s rainiest month of October averages 9.24” over ~12 days of rain. In other words, the poor Japanese are dealing with twelve THE BOMB CYCLONES just in the month of October, every year.

See also “our new era is characterised by an unending self-reinforcing cyclone of hyperventilation journalism, the likes of which we’ve never seen before. […] we will careen from one crisis to the next.”