What can you blame after a night of heavy precipitation and blustery winds battered New York and the east coast? Two words: bomb cyclone.

A bomb cyclone is a rapidly intensifying storm that forms when cold air meets warm ocean waters, often bringing powerful ...

The busy holiday period combined with the changing seasons often threatens chaos on the roads and at airports.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A snowstorm on the East Coast had a domino effect at Chicago's airports Thursday. Flights schedules were scrambled by a slew of cancelations. As of 5:55 p.m., 263 flights were ...

A fallen tree sits atop a fire department vehicle after a powerful storm hit the U.S. Pacific Northwest and western Canada, causing power outages in Washington, Oregon, California, and British ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A storm dumping heavy snow buried highways in Colorado and Wyoming Tuesday, prompted school closures in Nebraska and forced more than 1,000 travelers to sleep overnight in Denver's ...

Frozen fountain in New York City during a bomb cyclone event, Jan. 4, 2018. RW/MediaPunch/IPX Russ Schumacher, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science and Colorado State Climatologist, Colorado ...