To: snowsislander
Is that drop in pressure, from the 944 to the 902mb, is that what's referred to as explosive deepening?
2,013 posted on
08/28/2005 1:55:22 PM PDT by
mewzilla
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To: mewzilla
Is that drop in pressure, from the 944 to the 902mb, is that what's referred to as explosive deepening?Camille had a central pressure of 908 millibars when it hit. This is really bad
2,241 posted on
08/28/2005 2:17:01 PM PDT by
philo
(They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . . Union General John Sedgwick last words)
To: mewzilla
"Is that drop in pressure, from the 944 to the 902mb, is that what's referred to as explosive deepening?" Explosive Deepening: A decrease in the minimum sea-level pressure of a tropical cyclone of 2.5 mb/hr for at least 12 hours or 5 mb/hr for at least six hours. (http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutgloss.shtml)
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