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.

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?

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

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