(OPINION) Micheal Snyder – The most powerful winter storm to hit the west coast in ages has been dubbed “Winter Storm Ezekiel”, and this “historic storm” is going to make Thanksgiving travel an absolute nightmare for millions of people. Heavy snowfall combined with winds gusts of “over 70 mph” will create severe blizzard conditions in some areas, and travel will be close to impossible on certain portions of Interstate 80 and Interstate 5.

This is a very dangerous storm, and it is extremely unusual to be witnessing this sort of weather along the west coast in November. Meteorologists are telling us that Winter Storm Ezekiel is likely to “undergo bombogenesis” before it comes ashore, and that would officially make it a “bomb cyclone”… The intensifying storm is located in the northeastern Pacific Ocean and will move into Oregon and Northern California on Tuesday. This storm will likely undergo bombogenesis before it moves inland. This means its pressure will drop at least 24 millibars within 24 hours, making it an intense storm when it strikes. From there, the storm will track slowly eastward from the West toward the Plains into this weekend through a sharp southward plunge of the jet stream.

The Weather Channel has named this system Winter Storm Ezekiel. It is quite interesting that a “perfect storm” is going to sweep across the United States at a moment in history when America is entering “the perfect storm” that some of us have been warning about for so many years. Over the next couple of days, this “historic” storm will absolutely hammer the western third of the nation before moving into the Midwest… The intensity of this storm is potentially historic for southwestern Oregon and northwestern California, the National Weather Service said. READ MORE