What is 'bombogenesis' the weather phenomenon about to hit the US?

01/03/18

"But" what exactly does bombogenesis and bomb cyclone refer to?"

Bombogenesis of the past

"The eastern coast has experienced bombogenesis in the past, like the Superstorm of 1993, which is best known for a snowfall that covered parts of Alabama and went all the way to Maine. The NWS ranked it as "among the deadliest and most costly weather events of the 20th Century"."

http:// www.euronews.com/2018/01/03/rapidly-intensifying-bomb-cyclone-about-to-hit-the-us