cyclone

Many of the latest buzzwords in weather forecasting - "polar vortex", "bomb cyclone" - describe natural phenomena that are not new, or even necessarily more common than before, even if climate change in general has led to…

SAN FRANCISCO — Heavy rains, high winds, power outages and evacuations swept through California Thursday, as a second massive storm swept through the state in a week and was blamed for at least two deaths. Forecasts called for 4 inches of…

A powerful storm — seen here at 11 a.m. PT — underwent bombogenesis and intensified as it neared the West Coast on…