What is a bomb cyclone?
Bomb cyclone is actually used by meteorologists to indicate a mid-latitude cyclone that intensifies rapidly. It is a massive winter storm hammering the coast, bringing strong winds, flooding, ice and snow. It is a combination of rapidly declining pressure and extreme cold. This particular storm is the most explosive ever, observed on the east coast. It is called bomb cyclone, a dramatic name for what happens when the storm explosively strengthens while the pressure plummets.
Bomb cyclones” or “weather bombs” are wicked winter storms that can rival the strength of hurricanes and are so called because of the process that creates them: bombogenesis. … Bomb cyclones tend to happen more in the winter months andcan carry hurricane-force winds and cause coastal flooding and heavy snow
