When storms ‘bomb out’: Explaining how a bomb cyclone forms
A major nor’easter off the East Coast officially “bombed out” on Saturday, becoming a powerful weather system known as a “bomb cyclone.” The name comes from the meteorological term “bombogenesis,” or “explosive cyclogenesis,” when a storm system’s central pressure drops at least 24 millibars within 24 hours. A low-pressure system that achieves this mark becomes known as...