A powerful storm is bearing down on the West Coast and bringing with it a scary-sounding weather term - bomb cyclone. Bomb cyclone is a term used by weather enthusiasts to describe a process that ...

When turbulent weather with whipping winds and heavy snow is in the forecast, meteorologists sometimes warn that a storm could “bomb out” or become a bomb cyclone. But what exactly does this mean?

A bomb cyclone is an area of low pressure that shows rapid development within 24 hours between the tropical latitudes and the polar regions. The technical meteorological term for this is bombogenesis: ...

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