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The “anomalously strong” storm system was considered a “bomb cyclone,” which occurs when a cyclone intensifies rapidly. Another, albeit weaker, bomb cyclone may develop and rapidly ...
A bomb cyclone is a storm that strengthens so fast that the central atmospheric pressure plunges 0.71 of an inch (24 millibars) or more in 24 hours or less. The central pressure in Tuesday's bomb ...
A bomb cyclone hit the Pacific Northwest earlier this week and hundreds of thousands remain without power in Seattle and around the state. Washington power outage map: Over 300,000 remain without ...
A powerful extratropical cyclone developed c. November 18, 2024, in the Northeast Pacific and struck the Western United States and Western Canada. [9] [10] The storm underwent bombogenesis, rapidly dropping its central pressure [11] to a record-tying level of 942 millibars (27.8 inHg). [9]
The storm, known as a "bomb cyclone," brought wind gusts recorded at 55 mph at Sea-Tac Airport and as high as 77 mph in Mount Rainier National Park Wednesday, ... according to the outage tracker.
Bomb cyclone strikes: ... In the coastal city of Eureka, the National Weather Service office said the Eel River as on track to reach "major flood stage'' at 25 feet by Friday. Wind gusts in the ...
Explosive cyclogenesis (also referred to as a weather bomb, [1] [2] [3] meteorological bomb, [4] explosive development, [1] bomb cyclone, [5] [6] or bombogenesis [7] [8] [9]) is the rapid deepening of an extratropical cyclonic low-pressure area. The change in pressure needed to classify something as explosive cyclogenesis is latitude dependent ...
A storm, or cyclone, is essentially a giant spinning vacuum in the atmosphere. When a storm's central pressure drops 0.71 of an inch of mercury inches (24 millibars) or more in 24 hours or less ...