‘Bomb cyclone’ to impact holiday travel with blizzards, cold temps across the nation
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(Worthy News) – A Christmas blizzard is ramping up this week to ultimately form into a bomb cyclone, creating paralyzing conditions for travelers heading out for the holidays.
According to Fox Weather, the blizzard will move across the Midwest and Great Lakes this week before forming into a bomb cyclone. The term bombogenesis is used by meteorologists to refer to a rapidly intensifying area of low pressure.
The central pressure of the system must drop at least 24 millibars in 24 hours to qualify under bombogenesis, but what happens is the pressure drop intensifies the power of the storm. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]
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