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?

What is a bomb cyclone or bombogenesis? A “bomb cyclone” is a powerful mid latitude storm that rapidly intensifies, undergoing a sharp drop in central air pressure over about a day, according to ...

A bomb cyclone will hit the East Coast this weekend with cold, wind and snow. Courtesy of AccuWeather As the Myrtle Beach area braces for extreme cold and snow, one particularly attention-grabbing ...

The Philadelphia metro area is already writhing in the icy grip of an extended cold snap, but the cold weather blues may have only just begun, as the Delaware Valley may get sideswiped by a bomb ...

NOAA explains that bombogenesis “describes a midlatitude cyclone that rapidly intensifies” over a 24-hour period. This rapid intensification is measured by how much the storm’s central pressure falls ...