What is bombogenesis

A "bomb cyclone" hit the Northeastern U.S. over the weekend, and it left a lot of weather nerds scrambling to enter "what causes a Bomb Cyclone" into their search engines. This weather nerd is one of them.  To put it simply, a bomb cyclone, which occurs through the process known as bombogenesis, is basically a winter hurricane. It "occurs when a mid-latitude cyclone rapidly intensifies," or quickly drops in atmospheric […]