As the Myrtle Beach area braces for extreme cold and snow, one particularly attention-grabbing term is popping up in East Coast weather forecasts: bomb cyclone. The intense storm is set to impact South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia this weekend.
“In terms of the precipitation and the wind and the cold, it’s affecting the Carolinas, especially,” said meteorologist Rachel Zouzias with the National Weather Service’s Wilmington office. “They’re probably the bullseye of the storm.”
Referred to as bombogenesis by meteorologists, bomb cyclones occur when a cyclone rapidly intensifies in a short period of time…