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 ...

Mid-latitude storms that rapidly intensify into violent weather systems, known as bomb cyclones, form through a specific chain of atmospheric events that begins with clashing air masses and ends with ...

After a weekend storm dumped snow across the Northeast, forecasters are again watching a system that could become a nor’easter or bomb cyclone. Here’s what those terms mean — and why this kind of ...

Hurricanes, tropical cyclones and typhoons are all destructive windstorms, but how do they differ from one another? Learn more.

Horacio became the world's first Category 5 tropical cyclone of 2026 Monday, with winds hitting 160 mph over the southern ...