Terms like "Arctic blast ... one of the most terrifying: "bomb cyclone." Even in the often hyperbolic field of weather prediction, that's an eye-catching name, but what does it mean?

Some areas at risk for damaging hail and wind on Wednesday are the same spots that got hammered by November's bomb cyclone.

When a storm undergoes “bombogenesis,” it has to intensify at such a rate over the course of a 24-hour period that it attains the title “bomb cyclone ... for them looks like this ...