What can you blame after a night of heavy precipitation and blustery winds battered New York and the east coast? Two words: bomb cyclone.

The words "bomb" and "cyclone" are bad enough on their own. What does it mean when they're used to describe a storm?

Editor's note: Follow USA TODAY's Wednesday coverage of the Thanksgiving 2024 weather ... The term bomb cyclone’ – a powerful ...

DENVER — Some Coloradans might remember the bomb cyclone that hit our state in March of 2019, bringing 100 mph ... although it will still have an unusual weather impact. It started taking ...

It's a scary-sounding weather term – bomb cyclone. Bomb cyclone is a term used by weather enthusiasts to describe a process that meteorologists usually call bombogenesis. It’s the rapid ...

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 ...

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 ...

A powerful storm is bearing down on the West Coast and bringing with it a scary-sounding weather term – bomb cyclone. Bomb ...

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 ...

"The formation of this rapidly strengthening weather system is a process called bombogenesis, which creates what is known as a bomb cyclone." In the 1940s, some meteorologists began informally ...