What is a ‘bomb cyclone’? Meteorologists explain

(19 Nov 2024)
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ARCHIVE: Aptos, California – 6 January 2023
1. Truck drives through standing water in street
2. Men dig out mud in front of restaurant entrance

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Caribou, Maine – 19 November 2024
3.SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Fode, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service:
"We have a technical definition for it. And that’s when a low pressure system rapidly intensifies by 24 millibars in 24 hours."

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4. Standing water inside convenience store
5. Various worker sweeping mud out of store

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Caribou, Maine – 19 November 2024
6.SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Fode, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service:
"But really, what we’re describing is a low pressure system or a storm that’s going under rapid intensification."

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ARCHIVE: Aptos, California – 6 January 2023
7. Various worker sweeping mud out of store

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Caribou, Maine – 19 November 2024
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Fode, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service:
"Well, a hurricane is formed a little bit differently. Those storms also go…undergo rapid intensification. But usually the term bomb cyclone does not refer to a hurricane. It could be a snow storm, however. And we do actually most frequently see these in the winter. So they are frequently snowstorms as well."

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ARCHIVE: Aptos, California – 6 January 2023
9. Woman walks through flooded street
10. Various people looking at logs and debris on beach

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Caribou, Maine – 19 November 2024
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Louise Fode, Warning Coordination Meteorologist, National Weather Service:
"There’s a number of factors that are involved with any storm system to make it a bomb cyclone. But really, the most frequent thing that we see is when we have some stronger cold air being pulled into a warmer system."

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ARCHIVE: Aptos, California – 6 January 2023
12. Various people looking at logs and debris on beach

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College Park, Maryland – 19 November 2024
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Allison Santorelli, Meteorologist, NOAA/National Weather Service:
"Usually they’re going to be associated with a lot of weather, you know, heavy rainfall, heavy snowfall and certainly high gusty winds, possibly up to up to hurricane strength winds. I mean, we’re seeing wind gusts near the coast or off the coast of the Pacific Northwest right now up in the 90 mile per hour wind gusts. And they are expecting high wind gusts, especially in some of the higher terrain further inland as well."

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ARCHIVE: Aptos, California – 6 January 2023
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College Park, Maryland – 19 November 2024
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Allison Santorelli, Meteorologist, NOAA/National Weather Service:
"It’s going to bring some significant precipitation to portions of northern California. We’re talking rainfall totals, 10 to 20 inches possible with feet of snow, several feet of snow in the highest terrain. This is going to result in…likely to result in significant flash flooding and landslides."

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STORYLINE:
A powerful storm is bearing down on the West Coast and bringing with it a scary-sounding weather term. That term is bomb cyclone. Bomb cyclone is a term used by weather enthusiasts to describe a process that meteorologists usually call bombogenesis.

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