Bombogenesis (noun)
bom-bo-jen-e-sis
A phenomenon or process in which there is rapid and sustained falling of barometric pressure in the centre of a low-pressure system, indicative of its strengthening into a powerful storm.
1990s from bomb, as in weather bomb, + cyclogenesis.
Example sentences
“Bombogenesis means we’re to have two named storms in the UK in a single week for the first time ever.”
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