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Well let me try to blast away at this one. When a forecast 'bombs' that means that it was a lousy forecast that did not even come close to verifying. When a cyclone 'bombs' that means that it intensified significantly over a short period of time - anything from 6 to 24 hours. The term first came into common useage up in the northeast U.S. and originally described a winter storm, i.e., a nor'easter - which was a gale center that rapidly intensified and created blizzard conditions over a large portion of the northeast - blinding snow driven by high winds that resulted from the rapid intensification of the system. So an otherwise normal run of the mill coastal storm that suddenly and rapidly intensifies is called a storm that 'bombed'. Cheers, ED |