You’ve heard of dodging a bullet. Over the weekend, the Island dodged a bombogenesis. Bombogenesis is a coined word for an explosive storm that forms off the Eastern Seaboard in nothing flat, primarily from Cape Hatteras and northward. Islanders know all too well about explosive “Hatteras lows.” The term couples the technical name for a coastal storm detonation, a cyclogenesis, with the lay term for the explosion, a bombing.
The bombogenesis process was perfectly personified by last weekend’s mega storm, which the Weather Channel named Winter…
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