Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You may have heard talk of a “bomb cyclone” snowstorm that could impact Massachusetts this weekend. But do you need to worry? Here’s a breakdown of what that term means and what ...

A bomb cyclone will hit the East Coast this weekend with cold, wind and snow. Courtesy of AccuWeather As the Myrtle Beach area braces for extreme cold and snow, one particularly attention-grabbing term is popping up in East Coast weather forecasts: bomb ...

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 mean? According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This graphic created by the NWS Philadelphia/Mount Holly Office shows the probably of 5 inches of snow or more in NJ, NYC and the tri-state region this weekend. The National Weather ...

For a snowstorm or any storm to be characterized as a blizzard by the National Weather Service, three elements must be present: visibility of a quarter-mile or less for at least three consecutive hours as a result of snow and/or blowing snow, along with winds of at least 35 mph.

Georgia will see another winter storm this weekend, and this one looks like a bomb cyclone. What is that? How dangerous is this? Where will it hit?