As a major winter storm moves across the U.S. this week, it could undergo bombogenesis, or "bomb out," in the Midwest and the Plains. Bombogenesis -- or a "bomb cyclone" -- occurs when the pressure of ...

Bomb. It’s not a word you can say on an airplane (cue Ben Stiller). You also have to be careful when using it to describe a storm system. But the term “bomb cyclone” does pop up from time to time in ...

Millions of Americans are under critical weather alerts as a major winter storm is set to bring “life-threatening” cold temperatures and powerful winds to large swaths of the nation — with the mercury ...

This stormy pattern is touching nearly every state. There is currently a winter, wind chill, freeze, coastal, or wind alert in 44 of the lower forty-eight states. The developing bomb cyclone is ...

Bombogenesis is said to occur when a storm's central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours. In the 1940s, some meteorologists began informally calling some big coastal storms ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- With Christmas now just days away, holiday travel is picking up at airports across the country. This comes as a massive and powerful winter storm is bearing down on tens of ...

The powerful “bomb cyclone” storm now pummeling the Midwest is expected to strike parts of the Northeast on Friday — causing heavy rain and up to three feet of flooding in the New York area this ...

The National Weather Service has called it a “once in a generation type event” — a massive “bomb cyclone” barreling across the United States, snarling traffic, grounding airplanes and delivering some ...