{"id":76479,"date":"2018-03-02T17:03:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T01:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-noreaster-slamming-the-east-coast-is-undergoing-the-rapid-intensification-process-known-as-bombogenesis"},"modified":"2018-03-06T15:06:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:06:04","slug":"the-noreaster-slamming-the-east-coast-is-undergoing-the-rapid-intensification-process-known-as-bombogenesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/the-noreaster-slamming-the-east-coast-is-undergoing-the-rapid-intensification-process-known-as-bombogenesis","title":{"rendered":"The nor\u2019easter slamming the East Coast is undergoing the rapid intensification process known as \u2018bombogenesis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-noreaster-slamming-the-east-coast-is-undergoing-the-rapid-intensification-process-known-as-bombogenesis.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s official: the bomb cyclone is back.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/noreaster-bomb-cyclone-weather-forecast-warnings-boston-east-coast-2018-3\"> winter storm that the Weather Channel has dubbed \u201cRiley\u201d<\/a> has been undergoing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/what-bomb-cyclone-and-polar-vortex-mean-term-origin-2018-1\"> rapid intensification process called \u201cbombogenesis,\u201d<\/a> which means its central pressure is dropping quickly (an indicator of a storm\u2019s strength).<\/p>\n<p>In this case, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/category\/noreaster\">nor\u2019easter<\/a> still appears to be intensifying, but the central surface pressure of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StuOstro\/status\/969646484491784192\">storm system has already dropped<\/a> by at least 24 millibars (mb) in 24 hours, which means it is undergoing bombogenesis (or \u201cexplosive bombogenesis\u201d) and qualifies it as a weather bomb or bomb cyclone.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/noreaster-winter-storm-riley-bombogenesis-intensification-2018-3?utm_source=feedburner&%3Butm_medium=referral&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29&r=US&IR=T\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com.au\/noreaster-winter-storm-ri...&r=US&IR=T<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official: the bomb cyclone is back. The winter storm that the Weather Channel has dubbed \u201cRiley\u201d has been undergoing the rapid intensification process called \u201cbombogenesis,\u201d which means its central pressure is dropping quickly (an indicator of a storm\u2019s strength). In this case, the nor\u2019easter still appears to be intensifying, but the central surface pressure [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76608,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76479\/revisions\/76608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}