This was the term we were using locally since I was a kid, recently everyone’s been making an effort to refer to the phenomenon by the meteorological name, atmospheric river, but Pineapple Express is still pretty embedded with a lot of people that have been hearing and using it for 20+ years.
For the locals, the original term actually conveys the meaning better because the new term, while more widely known worldwide, is not as widely known locally.
This was the term we were using locally since I was a kid, recently everyone’s been making an effort to refer to the phenomenon by the meteorological name, atmospheric river, but Pineapple Express is still pretty embedded with a lot of people that have been hearing and using it for 20+ years.
For the locals, the original term actually conveys the meaning better because the new term, while more widely known worldwide, is not as widely known locally.