Adding to the deluge of weather
phenomenon terminology, the Northeast faces another category of atmospheric
tumult known simply as ‘bombogenesis’. This firework of syllables is best
described as a rapidly intensifying storm that is usually over the water. The
thing that sets this particular genre of storm apart from, say, tropical storms
– beyond its unseasonal presence is that it can only be cultivated when a warm
air mass clashes against a frigid one. In this case, the cold air provider is
none other than the dip in the polar vortex – the first meteorological term to
enter common vernacular this year. While this scenario is not uncommon during
the wintry months, in order to be classified as a bombogenesis – the central
pressure of the storm must drop quickly down to 24 millibars in just a day. The
impacts of a bombogenesis can include rapidly strengthening winds and high
precipitation rates, as well as thundersnow.
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