{"id":2236,"date":"2018-01-04T17:32:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T22:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2020-12-16T21:20:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T02:20:16","slug":"what-is-a-bomb-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2018\/01\/04\/what-is-a-bomb-cyclone\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Bomb Cyclone? Use ThingSpeak and MATLAB to Figure it Out."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media is blowing up the term bomb cyclone. The term is everywhere from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?vertical=news&amp;q=%23BombCyclone\">Twitter<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/weather\/mc-nws-snow-bomb-meaning-20180104-story.html\">24\/7 news coverage<\/a> of the storm hitting the East Coast of the United States. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/61327-bombogenesis.html\">technical term<\/a> for a bomb cyclone is bombogenesis which is the combination of &#8220;bomb&#8221; and &#8220;cyclogenesis.&#8221; Or, you could call it an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Explosive_cyclogenesis\">explosive cyclogenesis<\/a> to grab views to your blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A storm undergoes bombogenesis when its central low pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climate.gov\/news-features\/featured-images\/winter-2013-14-already-tops-2012-13-number-hurricane-force-storms\">according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At the MathWorks headquarters in\u00a0Natick, MA we have a weather station sending data to <a href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/channels\/12397\">ThingSpeak<\/a> for the past several years. Here&#8217;s what the weather station looks like on a better day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/channels\/12397\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2238\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/files\/2018\/01\/MathWorks_Weather_Station.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not many interesting events emerge from the data, but with something called a bomb cyclone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/profile\/authors\/285775-rob-purser\">Rob Purser<\/a> decided to take a closer look using MATLAB. Our weather station on ThingSpeak <a href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/channels\/12397\">channel 12397<\/a>\u00a0collects temperature, humidity, and pressure data. By taking a look at this MATLAB plot of the pressure analyzed over 24 hours, you will see the\u00a0pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours and in fact over 40 millibars. This storm definitely\u00a0fits its name of\u00a0explosive cyclogenesis.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"574\" height=\"493\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2242\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/files\/2018\/01\/Bombogenesis_plot_in_MATLAB.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Have a look at the raw data from <a href=\"https:\/\/thingspeak.com\/channels\/12397\">ThingSpeak<\/a> and see if you can determine the bomb cyclone event. In MATLAB, use <em>thingSpeakRead<\/em> via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/52244-thingspeak-support-toolbox\">ThingSpeak Support Toolbox<\/a>. We documented the process of analyzing the weather station data using MATLAB on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hackster.io\/matlab-iot\/analyzing-bomb-cyclone-data-with-thingspeak-and-matlab-27009c\">Hackster.io<\/a>. Just follow the steps using MATLAB or MATLAB Online, to discover some\u00a0interesting results.<\/p>\n<p>Stay warm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"overview-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/files\/2018\/01\/Bombogenesis_plot_in_MATLAB.png\" class=\"img-responsive attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Social media is blowing up the term bomb cyclone. The term is everywhere from Twitter to 24\/7 news coverage of the storm hitting the East Coast of the United States. The technical term for a bomb&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/2018\/01\/04\/what-is-a-bomb-cyclone\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":2242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,293],"tags":[254,210,60,209,8,124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2256,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/iot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}