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 ...

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 ...

A nor’easter is a strong winter storm that forms along the East Coast with winds from the northeast. A bomb cyclone refers to a storm that rapidly intensifies as its central pressure drops. A ...

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 powerful storm system reaching from border to border has been wreaking havoc as it sweeps across the Midwest, bringing blizzard conditions, severe thunderstorms and flooding. It also unleashed a ...

Environment Canada is warning that a "bomb cyclone" is expected to bring powerful winds to most of Vancouver Island and the B.C. coast.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Forecasters are closely watching a developing system that could affect parts of the East Coast this weekend, and with it has come familiar storm terminology — including nor’easter ...