Max Velocity said the core of the threat is a rapidly intensifying “bomb cyclone,” meaning the low pressure is expected to deepen by at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, a benchmark forecasters use to ...

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 weather event known as a bomb cyclone recently passed through the Midwest. What is this weather phenomenon, and when are ...