Weather Bomb

smurfchops | 18:20 Wed 10th Dec 2014 | ChatterBank

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Weather 'bomb'? Where did the word Bomb suddenly come from? Its everywhere !

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Mamyalynne

Explosive Cyclogenesis (also referred to as a weather bomb, meteorological bomb, explosive development, or bombogenesis) refers in a strict sense to a rapidly deepening extratropical cyclonic low-pressure area.

factor-fiction

This says the definition dates back to 1980.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb_%28meteorology%29
I don't remember hearing it though.
The phrase makes me think of an old 70s song by The Runaways for some reason

Mamyalynne

I quite like 'Bombogenesis' sounds like a new rock group.