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by drewcoo 1797 days ago
Those terms describe weather phenomena, not causes of those phenomena.

The terms are used by folks like NOAA, not just news trying to get ad eyeballs, so I think the accusation of "boogeyman terms" seems unfounded. They have no reason to mint scary terms.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/heat-dome.html