When turbulent weather with whipping winds and heavy snow is in the forecast, meteorologists sometimes warn that a storm could “bomb out” or become a bomb cyclone. But what exactly does this mean?

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A winter weather advisory is in effect for much of Ohio as a bomb cyclone — a rapidly intensifying winter storm — crosses the Great Lakes.