An arctic blast has made its way south from Canada this week, with a winter storm forming over the Great Lakes region on Thursday.
NOAA GOES-16/GOES-East satellite view of a bomb cyclone on January 4 2018 and NOAA’s GOES-West satellite image of another , on March 13, 2019.Bomb cyclones are extremely strong winter storms caused by large drops in atmospheric pressure.
"Bomb cyclones refer to a more exceptional type of extratropical—or midlatitude—cyclone that is associated with a rapid drop in pressure," Esther Mullens, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Florida,
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