Lol atmospheric rivers, bombs and other insane terms are weaponized forms of weather that makes what is normal ebbs and flows sound sensational.
Did the Weather Channel come up with those names?
I think “Bomb Cyclone” was a term they came up with for what everyone in New England had been calling a Noreaster for the previous 10 years. Which was basically a winter hurricane. A low front that comes up from the south traveling in a north eastern direction and spinning counter clockwise.
Atmospheric river is just another name for the Pineapple Express. Its nothing new but it sounds scarier.
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Those two terms, and a few others, have been in use for decades. I have lived in Oregon and California most of my life, and atmospheric rivers, at least, has been a common term on the west coast for at least 40 years.
Other things, like naming every winter storm, is new.