Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle continues to amaze us with its long journey across northern Australia. This cyclone began life near the Solomon Islands on March 16, when moist air rose rapidly and ...

Tropical Cyclone Narelle is on a direct path toward northeastern Australia, where it will make a rare landfall as a powerful storm. "Tropical Cyclone Narelle is forecast to rapidly intensify and could ...

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 ...

What’s the weather going to be like in this powerful storm? It depends on exactly where you are located in Michigan. Let’s walk through what should occur and where. In a strong storm such as this one, ...

We may be months away from the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, but tropical cyclones are spinning somewhere on the planet. Indeed, on the other side of the world, "Tropical Cyclone Horacio ...

A life-threatening nor'easter and bomb cyclone has brought a blizzard to NYC, NJ and along the East Coast, causing widespread PSE&G outages, a NYC state of emergency, and a NYC travel ban, with ...

A major blizzard has brought lashing winds and heavy snowfall across the East Coast, causing many local leaders to declare states of emergency and restrict or limit travel in light of the storm’s ...

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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?

You may hear the term "bomb cyclone" and think it's a scary term that meteorologists made up to get your attention. But it's actually rooted in meteorology, from the term "bombogenesis." Hearing "bomb ...