Weernieuws A heavy snowstorm ravaging currently the center of the United States. In states such as Colorado and Wyoming, there can be up to sixty inches of snow fall. What the storm so exceptional, are the heavy squalls. Meteorologists speak therefore of a ‘bomb cyclone’, which, according to them, even comparable to a hurricane of category one. The storm is not only accompanied with a lot of snowfall, but also with hail.

The exceptional ‘bomb cyclone’ is created when the air pressure very quickly drops. A storm can change quickly in a real cyclone. The air pressure is in states like Colorado very low, which makes for extreme weather conditions. Also today and tomorrow there will be several places still a lot of snow fall, accompanied by strong wind gusts.