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: ...

That dangerous blizzard everyone is talking about this week will become a bomb cyclone as it wallops the Midwest and Great Lakes later this week. It will also bring damaging winds as it spreads toward ...