A strong winter weather system has the potential to develop into a bomb cyclone off the East Coast later this weekend.

Such rapidly strengthening storms are capable of producing heavy rain, blizzard conditions and intense winds that can create dangerous conditions such as downed trees and power outages.

When storms undergo bombogenesis, they rapidly strengthen. The National Weather Service writes, "Bombogenesis can happen when a cold air mass collides with a warm air mass, such as air over warm ocean ...

A historic snowstorm has blanketed eastern North Carolina, creating dangerous travel conditions on roads and bridges in Carteret County. Piles of snow blown by strong winds are blocking neighborhoods, ...

Australia's climate is changing rapidly due to rising global greenhouse gas emissions. Extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones, east coast low pressure systems, flash floods, droughts, ...