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 ...

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 ...

Bomb cyclones can happen in any season, but mainly occur during fall and winter.

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 ...