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1:36 AM - 4 Jan 2018
This storm is now, officially, a #BombCyclone.
Its central pressure has dropped 29mb in the past 16 hours, beating the 24mb/24hrs requirement.
It gets better: In the next 8hrs, it'll drop another 23mb.
52mb in 24hrs. One of the fastest intensifying cyclones ever measured.
Update 9:26 AM - 4 Jan 2018:
The #BombCyclone has intensified 45mb in 24 hours. This is now the most rapidly deepening East Coast winter storm since at least 1980, according to one analysis.
Update 2 9:37 AM:
A second (preliminary) analysis also shows the #BombCyclone as the most rapidly deepening East Coast winter storm on record (going back to the late 1970s when satellite records begin).
51mb intensification in 24 hours. Wow.
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