[skimbell]

I did a quick search and the term "bomb cyclone" has NO hits prior to 2018.

Not saying they just made it up, but the term doesn't appear to have much of a history.

Sort of like the "polar vortex" they were throwing around a year or so ago.

[dhs12345]

It is called scary word scrabble. We had a “bomb cyclone” last spring and we survived.

[Reily]

Use or abuse of language not to inform the public but to excite in a negative way!

[SamAdams76]

I've noticed a trend towards normal weather being re-branded with "alarming" sounding terms like "bomogenesis"; "polar vortex"; "arctic blast", etc.

And what we are getting on the East Coast over the next couple of days is NORMAL weather for late October.

I've lived in the Northeast much of my life and you can count on a number of "northeasters" in any given year from about October to March. I would say 6-8 big coastal storms in a season is about the average for the Northeast. I might actually be on the low side.

[Carriage Hill]

“polar vortex”

I remember when the wacko eco-idiot weather fools invented that crap phrase. We used to call it a snowstorm or blizzard, back in the 50s.