As Northern California braces for severe weather, we explain the meteorological phenomenon behind the dramatic-sounding term

Here’s what the winter-weather phenomenon is, and whether New Jersey should be worried about it. A bomb cyclone is a potent cold-season coastal storm that's so-named due to its explosive strength. Sometimes called a winter hurricane,

What is a ‘bomb cyclone’? The powerful storm battering the West Coast - At least two people have died and hundreds of thousands left without power after the bomb cyclone slammed into Seattle