NEW YORK (PIX11) — Through coverage of the blizzard in the tri-state area, you may hear some unfamiliar terms like bombogenesis or bomb cyclone. In simple terms, bombogenesis occurs when a storm ...

What does the weather term mean, how do the storms form and why are they so dangerous?

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?

A life-threatening nor'easter and bomb cyclone has brought blizzard conditions to New Jersey and along the East Coast, causing widespread PSE&G and JCP&L outages, a NJ state of emergency, and a NJ ...