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?

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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?

Weekend plans? How about "bombogenesis." That's the name of the weather process headed for much of the East Coast this weekend, as "a mid-latitude cyclone rapidly intensifies," or quickly drops in ...