0 a large, fast fall in air pressure that leads to the forming of a bomb cyclone (= a severe storm that develops very fast):
Bombogenesis is an ominous-sounding term frequently used to describe powerful low-pressure systems that intensify rapidly.
The corridor off the East Coast of the US is notorious for bombogenesis events.
The word bombogenesis comes from combining "bomb" and "cyclogenesis," the meteorological term for storm formation.
