Meteorologists sometimes warn of a winter storm that could “bomb out” or become a bomb cyclone. According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this happens when a storm's ...

Mid-latitude storms that rapidly intensify into violent weather systems, known as bomb cyclones, form through a specific chain of atmospheric events that begins with clashing air masses and ends with ...

Hurricanes, tropical cyclones and typhoons are all destructive windstorms, but how do they differ from one another? Learn more.

A strong winter weather system has the potential to develop into a bomb cyclone off the East Coast later this weekend.

After a weekend storm dumped snow across the Northeast, forecasters are again watching a system that could become a nor’easter or bomb cyclone. Here’s what those terms mean — and why this kind of ...