explosive cyclogenesis

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A decline in the barometric pressure of twenty-four millibars over a twenty-four hour period at or north of sixty-degrees latitude.

Word forms

explosive cyclogenesis explosive cyclogeneses

Etymology

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

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