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Related: About this forumBering Sea "Bomb" Cyclone Sports Category 1 Hurricane Winds, Falls 49 Millibars In 24 Hours
https://images.washingtonpost.com/?url=&op=noopThis loop from the Himawari-9 Satellite emphasizes how intertwined the warm and cold air masses became in the rapidly intensifying storm. White clouds represent clouds made of ice, and pink represents clouds made of liquid water.
A powerful storm in the Bering Sea tied the record for most intense wintertime cyclone in the North Pacific over the weekend. (CIMSS/SSEC/University of Wisconsin)
The Bering Sea west of Alaska hosted a whopping storm system over the weekend, with sustained winds equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane and gusts up to 115 mph.
Having dropped 49 millibars between Saturday and Sunday, the incredible Aleutian cyclone constitutes a meteorological bomb a storm that drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours more than twice over.
Early Sunday morning, the storms central pressure finally bottomed out at 924 millibars, tying the record for lowest wintertime pressure in the North Pacific Ocean since records began in the winter of 1969-1970. The previous strongest storm in this region occurred just one year ago.
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Bering Sea "Bomb" Cyclone Sports Category 1 Hurricane Winds, Falls 49 Millibars In 24 Hours (Original Post)
hatrack
Dec 2015
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TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)1. You're scaring me
I have a young friend who is an official observer on a fishing vessel in the Bering Sea. I hope her boat and all of the fleet are safe in port.
enough
(13,262 posts)3. My daughter did that job for a couple of years right after college.
It was fantastically interesting and exciting for her, but I was so glad when she decided she'd had enough. My nightmares were vivid.
However, she and everyone on the boats made it through safely, and I'm sure your friend will also. And she'll have stories to dine out on for the rest of her life!
phantom power
(25,966 posts)2. fuck the what?
2naSalit
(86,743 posts)4. One of our felow DUers is out there
on a NOAA ship somewhere. Adirondak... Hope he's okay, haven't heard from him in several months, he went there last spring.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)5. our family used to fly salmon instate from there. you don't have
enough ANYTHING to make me get on a boat out there. Its like that in normal weather. Its the birthplace of storms.