Bombogenesis to hit California on Friday

[LadyStanley]

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Bombogensis-aka-a-weather-bomb-forecast-to-hit-10938774.php

A rapidly intensifying storm, which meteorologists describe with the fancy term "bombogenesis," is developing in the Pacific and forecast to hit the state Friday night.


The process of bombogenesis occurs when a low pressure storm system intensifies rapidly, or "bombs out." To qualify, the minimum central air pressure must drop 24 millibars in 24 hours.

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[Teemu]

Sounds like the scientific term for the Manhattan Project

 

[Fixed to Ruin]

Having lived in Eastern Canada for a long time the term "Weather Bomb" is familiar to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosive_cyclogenesis

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

So in simple terms what does this mean???

 

[LadyStanley]

So in simple terms what does this mean???

Lots of precipitation (and if there was warm air mixing in, the possibility of tornadoes).

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Lots of precipitation (and if there was warm air mixing in, the possibility of tornadoes).

Ok cool.

 

[LadyStanley]

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...sis-conditions-off-northern-california-coast/

And strong winds

 

[LT]

Basically just an exceptionally strong storm.

California's drought has disappeared almost completely

 

[SenorDingDong]

Basically just an exceptionally strong storm.

California's drought has disappeared almost completely

Nah way too early for that.

Soon California will get 6 months without barely a drop of rain, let's see what it's like after that.