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 ...
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: ...