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?

Horacio is spinning in the remote South Indian Ocean. It's a reminder that the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is only three ...

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 ...

Weekend plans? How about "bombogenesis." That's the name of the weather process headed for much of the East Coast this weekend, as "a mid-latitude cyclone rapidly intensifies," or quickly drops in ...