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
• 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
• 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
• Typical air pressure on a nice day is around 1010 millibars.
  — Angela Fritz, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2018
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But despite the disconnect between the storm and the Pineapple Express, the storm did see a dramatic drop in pressure, falling below 990 millibars.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Mar. 2023
• This storm’s pressure fell at more than twice that rate: 59 millibars in 24 hours, which put it into the upper echelon of the most explosive East Coast storms ever observed.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Over New England, central pressure bottomed out at 960 millibars.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2018
• For context, the sea-surface pressure on the last storm fell to 984 millibars as its eye went over San Francisco — lower than anticipated with this next system.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Mar. 2023
• The intensity was based on the minimum central pressure reading of 892.3 millibars, which was a record for a U.S. landfall hurricane.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 24 Oct 2024