bomb cyclone

A powerful northeastern snowstorm is creating dangerous conditions as it causes power outages and coastal flooding.

A powerful storm that drenched the West Coast with record-breaking rainfall and hurricane-force winds triggered landslides, flooded roads and left two people dead in Washington State. It also resurrected one of California’s most iconic natural features — Yosemite Falls. Before a “bomb cyclone” slammed into the state Sunday, dropping nearly a foot of rain in some parts of a region strained...

I traveled to Boston Massachusetts to interview one of the people who created the bomb cyclone term Dr. John Gyakum. Dr Gyakum is now a professor in meteorology at McGill University in Montreal Quebec, Canada. Dr. Gyakum along with Fred Sanders introduced the term in a 1980 meteorology paper. A bomb cyclone is a weather phenomenon that we experience on…