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?

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 ...

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 ...