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- noun Plural form of
millibar .
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Examples
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Pressure falls in millibars (mb) over Minnesota between Monday and Tuesday morning.
Midwest storm by the numbers Jason Samenow 2010
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We had a pressure of 1,004 millibars, which is the same that the previous aircraft.
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The last time - this storm has a central pressure of 908 millibars, that is one millibar say measure of pressure like a scale it's one millibar below or stronger than Hurricane Camille which hit Gulfport-Biloxi in 1969.
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This is usually portrayed in forecast models as "millibars" or "mb" for short.
unknown title 2009
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Barometers measure atmospheric pressure, usually in a range between about 980 and 1020 millibars Mb but occasionally, at times of very high or low pressure, outside these figures.
Weatherwatch: Measuring the most severe gales to hit the British Isles 2011
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If you compare it to a long-range weather forecast, it is accurate to say that in the Bahamas, between May and September, the barometric pressure will be 1004 millibars and the winds will be southeast at 15 knots most of the time.
Global Warming, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The lifted index is defined as the temperature of a rising bubble of air when it reaches a height where the atmospheric pressure is 500 millibars usually around 5,500 metres, subtracted from the actual temperature of the air at 500 millibars.
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Air pressure had risen by nearly fifty millibars in just the twenty-four years that he had been alive.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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It had a core pressure of 882 millibars and caused devastation in Cozumel and Yucatan.
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The sound wave, at an air temperature of 68° F 20° C and atmospheric pressure of 29.92 in of mercury or 1,013.25 millibars, arrives more slowly in about 10 seconds.
The subject of Michelle Obama's bare arms is so important... Ann Althouse 2009
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