The extreme weather in New South Wales this week generated some dramatic headlines. “NSW about to get absolutely obliterated” from news.com.au is a personal favourite – and pretty much summed up the tone of much of the coverage.
One term popped up repeatedly: bomb cyclone. “Urgent warning issued about ‘bomb cyclone’,” the Daily Mail said. We were, according to news.com.au, “in the path of a ‘bomb cyclone”. A bomb and a cyclone in one term is scary stuff, but was it accurate?
