How to Use bomb cyclone in a Sentence

bomb cyclone

noun
  • Many of the most intense winter storms to batter the country's coasts have been bomb cyclones.
    John Bacon, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Here's everything to know about bomb cyclones and how the major storm is affecting Oregon and Washington.
    John Bacon, The Arizona Republic, 21 Nov. 2024
  • The arctic front, called a bomb cyclone, isn’t out of here yet.
    Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2022
  • Capitola was hit with a bomb cyclone that all but destroyed the pier.
    Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • On Tuesday, a bomb cyclone hammered the Bay Area with hurricane-strength winds.
    Kathryn Prociv, NBC News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Crazy cold temperatures, heavy snow, and strong winds are coming just in time for the holidays, all thanks to a bomb cyclone.
    Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • How will the 'bomb cyclone' and polar vortex impact Cincinnati?
    Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The weather was part of a bomb cyclone that recently swept the nation, shutting down NFL games, freezing over oil plants, and turning Texas icey in its wake.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2024
  • At least two bomb cyclone storms drubbed the Bay Area last year, including one in March that resulted in multiple deaths.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • An atmospheric river and bomb cyclone are what make this storm so powerful — but what do those terms mean?
    Nikki Nolan, CBS News, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Fifteen minutes into the debut episode of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s podcast, the power is knocked out by a bomb cyclone.
    Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The winter storm is expected to become a bomb cyclone, a term that simply refers to a storm that intensifies very rapidly.
    NBC News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The storm exploded into a bomb cyclone off the coast, near Vancouver Island, Canada, where winds gusted near 101 mph.
    Max Golembo, ABC News, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Stragglers came late after a blizzard and bomb cyclone delayed shipments.
    Ben Cohen, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
  • And all of this comes on the heels of what has been a particularly wild time in air travel, with bomb cyclones and holiday travel meltdowns having taken place in the past few months.
    Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Another bomb cyclone could develop and rapidly strengthen just off the West Coast on Friday.
    Mary Gilbert, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
  • That’s partly why an atmospheric river coupled with a bomb cyclone dropped so much rain over the Bay Area in early January.
    Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In Novato, crews are keeping an eye on Redwood Boulevard, an artery alongside Highway 101 that split open when last week’s bomb cyclone caused severe erosion on the hills.
    Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Deadly ‘bomb cyclone’ storm slams California At least one person was killed as a wet and windy storm arrived in California on Tuesday, the second day of spring.
    Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2023
  • An airborne stream of dense ocean moisture called an atmospheric river combined with a vast low-pressure system known as a bomb cyclone to cause flooding and record snowfall.
    Harold Maass, The Week, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Travelers can rejoice that winter storm Elliott and its dreaded bomb cyclone are behind us, but two more months of winter could still wreak havoc on U.S. airports.
    Laura Smythe, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
  • How a ‘bomb cyclone’ helped fuel California’s deadly storm.
    Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Harsh winter weather spinning out of a monster bomb cyclone is expected to disrupt travel across the country this holiday weekend.
    Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The rapidly intensifying low pressure system, what forecasters are calling a bomb cyclone, will leave much of the nation in freezing and even below zero weather.
    Kevin Spear, Orlando Sentinel, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Advertisement The result is blustery conditions converging on the center of bomb cyclones.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Forecasters said a bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — had developed near the Great Lakes, stirring up blizzard conditions, including heavy winds and snow.
    CBS News, 25 Dec. 2022
  • In simplest terms, a bomb cyclone is a Hollywood-like name for a midlatitude storm that intensifies really, really fast.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
  • The winter storm system could create treacherous holiday travel conditions in the meantime as the strengthening pre-Christmas blizzard could become a bomb cyclone.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The weather and travel woes continued throughout the holiday weekend, especially after a bomb cyclone — when atmospheric pressure drops very quickly in a strong storm — developed near the Great Lakes.
    CBS News, 26 Dec. 2022
  • California’s weather has been driven by wave after wave of winter storms, including January’s bomb cyclone and record flooding in San Francisco.
    Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2023

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