Flights have been cancelled, blizzard warnings were issued and snow is piling up across the East Coast during a nor'easter, but in Denver, it's 70 and sunny in mid-February.

Bomb cyclones can happen in any season, but mainly occur during fall and winter.

When turbulent weather with whipping winds and heavy snow is in the forecast, meteorologists sometimes warn that a storm could “bomb out” or become a bomb cyclone. But what exactly does this mean?

A strong winter weather system has the potential to develop into a bomb cyclone off the East Coast later this weekend.