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Terms like "Arctic blast ... one of the most terrifying: "bomb cyclone." Even in the often hyperbolic field of weather prediction, that's an eye-catching name, but what does it mean?

The strong low pressure system currently impacting the west coast has a very impressive look to it on recent satellite ... around social media as well, like these ones from NWS depicting which ...

They are responsible for producing heavy rain and snow, especially when pushed up against mountain ranges like the Cascades ... it is considered a bomb cyclone. Bomb cyclones can occur when ...

According to the Earth Observatory, the intensification of the storm from a cyclone into a bomb cyclone was more than double what is necessary to make such a classification. The system pummeled ...

Please look at the time stamp on the story to ... Pacific Northwest are preparing for this week. But what is a bomb cyclone, why does it happen and why are these big storms so feared?