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Weather conditions across the U.S. mean bomb cyclones are possible

by tux on 12/22/22, 3:32 PM with 7 comments

• by PopAlongKid on 12/22/22, 5:00 PM

  "The origins of bomb as a meteorologic term are not entirely clear; although reputed to have been in spoken use for a number of decades prior to this, our earliest written record of this sense of bomb occurs in 1980."[0]

  I call B.S. on "bomb" as a meterological term "for a number of decades prior", it is just another lame clickbait term. "The rapid intensification of a low-pressure system in which the barometric pressure of the system drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours (also referred to as explosive cyclogenesis)"[1] is nothing like an actual bomb.

  [0]https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-is-bombog...

  [1]https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-is-bombog...