Lashing rains and damaging winds are coming for Sydney as a rapidly intensifying system stews off the Queensland coast.

A bomb cyclone, also known as a bombogenesis, is a cyclone in the mid-latitudes of Australia that strengthens rapidly. When atmospheric pressure drops suddenly in under 24 hours, as is expected on ...

Residents in NSW are being urged to prepare now as a powerful “bomb cyclone” bears down on the state. The Bureau of ...

The Bureau of Meteorology’s Daniel Hayes said a “bomb cyclone” – or “bombogenesis” – was a low pressure system that formed “very quickly”, causing pressure to drop significantly within a short period ...

A rapidly intensifying weather system, known as a “bombing low”, is set to impact Sydney and parts of the New South Wales ...

The system, known as “bombogenesis”, is expected to develop into a savage east coast low by this afternoon, with areas from Tenterfield down to the Illawarra and beyond warned of “destructive” winds ...

It sounds a little like Twisters but is not quite as dramatic. A bomb cyclone is the common terminology amongst meteorologists for bombogenesis. This refers to a fast-developing storm that occurs when ...

Forget the headlines and hyperbole of the fictitious "rain bomb" — the real weather bomb is possible along Australia's east ...