'As those who have witnessed these tempests can attest, a bomb cyclone can indeed be a severe weather event. It usually comes with incredibly strong winds and very substantial precipitation,' writes scientist Don Lincoln for CNNOpinion
Don Lincoln is a senior scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the author of"The Large Hadron Collider: The Extraordinary Story of the Higgs Boson and Other Stuff That Will Blow Your Mind." He also produces a series of science education videos. Follow him on Facebook. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely his. View more opinion articles on CNN.
Say what you will about weather being mundane small-talk, but it has a flair for inspiring dramatic ways to describe it. The term snowmageddon seems to show up every year these days, but there's also snOMG, snowpocalypse, polar vortex and now the bomb cyclone. Don Lincoln Of course, this begs the question: Is the bomb cyclone a real thing, or just a bit of clickbait hyperbole? The foreboding moniker became famous last winter when the Northeast was hit with a powerful snowstorm and has re-emerged in the last few days as another storm bears down on the middle of the country. As those who have witnessed these tempests can attest, a bomb cyclone can indeed be a severe weather event.
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