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As predicted, a massive storm has formed northwest of Alaska's westernmost Aleutian Islands over the cold and turbulent waters of the Bering Sea
The storm is intensifying explosively in a process known to meteorologists as "bombogensis." When it reaches peak intensity on Friday night into Saturday morning, the storm could set an all-time minimum air pressure record for the Bering Sea, and may rival the all-time global record for the lowest pressure ever recorded in a non-tropical storm.
Bombogensis means that the storm's minimum central air pressure will plunge by at least 24 millibars (mb) in 24 hours, and this storm is going to put that definition to shame, going from about 970 mb on Thursday night to somewhere between 915 and 926 mb within 24 hours. Already, the storm has brought 71-mile-per-hour sustained winds to the Aleutian Island of Shemya, with a gust to 96 miles per hour recorded on Friday morning local time. Read more...
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