explosive cyclogenesis

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Etymology

From explosive (“from being the explosive (rapid) generation of an extratropical cyclonic storm”) +‎ cyclogenesis.

Noun

explosive cyclogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural explosive cyclogeneses)

  1. (meteorology) A decline in the barometric pressure of twenty-four millibars over a twenty-four hour period at or north of sixty-degrees latitude.
    Synonyms: bombogenesis, meteorological bomb, weather bomb

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