bomb cyclone

plural bomb cyclones

1. climatologyA type of extratropical cyclone characterized by high winds, a high level of precipitation, and rapid development.

   c. 1999, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 128, Issues 1-4, American Meteorological Society, page 403, In a compositing study of bomb cyclones, Manobianco (1989) found a prominent localized VM upstream from the developing surface cyclone.

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   It has been suggested that some east coast bomb cyclones form by this process (Shapiro and Keyser, 1990).

   1992, Peter Jon Pokrandt, A three-dimensional, nonhydrostatic investigation of warm core cyclogenesis at high latitude, University of Wisconsin--Madison, page 1

   However, the bomb cyclones’ size and depth are typically larger in the EM^([Eastern Mediterranean]) than in its western part (Kouroutzoglou et al., 2011).

   2012, Piero Lionello, editor, The Climate of the Mediterranean Region: From the Past to the Future, Elsevier, page 316

   The winter storm that forecasters dubbed Elliott intensified into a bomb cyclone near the Great Lakes on Friday, bringing high winds and blizzard conditions from the Northern Plains to western and upstate New York, along with life-threatening flooding, flash-freezing and travel chaos as it went.

   2022 December 23, Jon Henley, Edward Helmore, Maya Yang, “Gigantic US winter storm leaves millions without power and cancels holiday plans”, in The Guardian