How to Use millibar in a Sentence

millibar

noun
  • The central pressure of the storm has to drop at the rate of one millibar per hour for at least 24 hours.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 4 Jan. 2018
  • So, the millibar requirement can change depending on where the storm forms.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 23 Dec. 2022
  • This storm intensified by more than 50 millibars in that same timespan.
    — Andrew Freedman, Axios, 18 Nov. 2024
  • Typically, a range in millibar change is around 10 to 15 in that same timeframe.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 21 Oct. 2021
  • For those keeping score, that means the system’s central pressure will drop 24 millibars in 24 hours.
    — Bloomberg.com, 11 Mar. 2018
  • In fact, this storm will qualify as a 'bomb cyclone,' dropping more than 24 millibars in 24 hours.
    — NBC News, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Measured in millibars, atmospheric pressure readings track changes in air pressure where masses of cold and warm air meet.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2019
  • At the same time, a newly developing coastal storm was forming over the Delmarva, with pressure dropping at a rate of two millibars per hour.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Over New England, central pressure bottomed out at 960 millibars.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
  • If the storm’s pressure drops 24 millibars in 24 hours, it’s considered a bomb because of how fast that strengthening occurred.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Since the start of the storm on Tuesday, the pressure has already dropped 27 millibars, which means the storm is in hurricane territory.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 13 Mar. 2019
  • Its central pressure of just 882 millibars set the record for lowest central pressure of any Atlantic hurricane on record.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2018
  • To earn the title, its pressure generally must drop 24 millibars (a unit that measures pressure) within 24 hours.
    — Jennifer Gray, CNN, 17 Oct. 2019
  • The central pressure dropped to an incredible 944 millibars, which is on par with the central pressure of a strong hurricane in the tropics.
    — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2024
  • One way to gauge the magnitude of a heat wave is to measure the height of the typical halfway point of the atmosphere - at the 500 millibar pressure level.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
  • One way to gauge the magnitude of a heat wave is to measure the height of the typical halfway point of the atmosphere — at the 500 millibar pressure level.
    — Washington Post, 18 June 2021
  • Bomb cyclones are storms that undergo rapid intensification — often seeing as much as a 24 millibar drop in pressure at their core.
    — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Jan. 2023
  • Satellite images show a classic major hurricane, with a clear visible eye, and its central pressure had dropped to 928 millibars.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
  • This number shows the last three digits of a station’s air-pressure reading to the nearest tenth of a millibar (mb); the last number actually comes after the decimal point.
    — Dennis Mersereau, Outside Online, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Essentially any storm qualifies if its central barometric pressure drops by 24 millibars or more in 24 hours.
    — Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg.com, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The definition of a bomb cyclone is a storm that drops 24 millibars in 24 hours, going through a process known as bombogenesis.
    — NBC News, 7 May 2020
  • To be officially classified as a weather bomb, the pressure needs to drop 24 millibars in 24 hours, writes Donegan.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 14 Mar. 2017
  • One way to gauge the magnitude of a heat dome is to measure the height of the typical halfway point of the lower atmosphere — at the 500 millibar pressure level.
    — Washington Post, 10 July 2021
  • Bombogenesis is said to occur when a storm's central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours.
    — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The actual highest drop in pressure seen in this storm easily surpassed that benchmark — falling by 22 millibars over 24 hours, Behringer said.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The storm’s pressure dropped more than 24 millibars in 24 hours, meeting the criteria for a meteorological bomb.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2018
  • Pretty impressive for a planet with barometric pressure around 10 millibars—just 1 percent of the pressure on Earth’s surface.
    — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 5 Nov. 2015
  • On Monday evening, the European model was forecasting this storm to drop to 985 millibars, which is a decent nor’easter even by winter standards.
    — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 6 June 2017
  • In meteorological terms, this occurs when the central pressure of a storm, a key indicator of its strength, drops 24 millibars in 24 hours.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Mar. 2018
  • This particular storm is said to drop 970 millibars, which would match it with a Category 2 Atlantic hurricane.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 13 Mar. 2019

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