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Storm threat increasing for Michiana Friday and Saturday
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’Pollinator Promenade’ celebrates local pollinators
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Nothing notable on Thursday, but showers and storms to end the...
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Benton Harbor bringing mobile nuisance party ordinance back to...
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Board votes 5-2 to keep Clay High School Building
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New Benton Harbor Area Schools Superintendent sits down with...
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Nationwide outcry for reopening of the Jayco Animal Cruelty Case
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A new apartment complex coming to the heart of downtown Saint...
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Bodycam footage shows search for man who stole police car
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Evening storms possible, much less muggy Thursday
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Elkhart expands city boundaries following city council’s approval...
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Watermelon in hot car experiment
One term you may have heard from the storms on the west coast is "Bomb Cyclone".
Bomb Cyclone is actually short for a meteorological term, Bomb Cyclogenesis.
This is when an area of low pressure rapidly intensities, dropping 24 millibars in 24 hours.
So rather than a noun like it's been used as, it's more of an adjective, describing the process happening with the area of low pressure.
When a low pressure intensifies like this, it can bring heavy rain and/or heavy snow, and strong wind.
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