The North Atlantic Ocean plays host to some of the strongest winter storms on Earth during the Northern Hemisphere's cold season, and this week is no exception
A storm system that exited the U.S. over the weekend has deepened extremely rapidly off the coast of Newfoundland, and is destined to lash the southeastern Greenland coast as well as Iceland with strong winds and towering waves
The National Weather Service noted that the storm's minimum central air pressure plummeted by 52 millibars in just 24 hours, while spinning up hurricane-force (74 miles-per-hour or higher) winds. This qualifies the storm as a meteorological bomb, which comes from the weather term "bombogenesis." Read more...
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