How to Use bomb cyclone in a Sentence

bomb cyclone

noun

• 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

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024