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   bombogenesis

   /bɒmbəˈdʒɛnɪsɪs/

   noun

   • 1. a phenomenon or process in which there is rapid and sustained falling of barometric pressure in the centre of a low-pressure system, indicative of its strengthening into a powerful storm. "the storm will intensify rapidly, so quickly, in fact, that it will likely undergo bombogenesis"

   Word Origin 1990s: from bomb, as in weather bomb, + cyclogenesis.

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