How to Use bomb cyclone in a Sentence

bomb cyclone

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Definition of bomb cyclonenext
  • Capitola was hit with a bomb cyclone that all but destroyed the pier.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2024
  • How a ‘bomb cyclone’ helped fuel California’s deadly storm.
    — Anthony De Leon, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • The arctic front, called a bomb cyclone, isn’t out of here yet.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2022
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And this precise moment where the pressure drops dramatically, turning a winter storm into a bomb cyclone, is known as bombogenesis.
    — Kyla Mandel, Time, 23 Dec. 2022
  • With the reach of traditional and social media, long-standing meteorological terms like Polar Vortex, derecho, bomb cyclone, and atmospheric river have entered the public lexicon.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2023

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