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Don’t be alarmed if your social media feeds explode with scary-sounding weather terms like “bomb cyclone,” “bombogenesis” or “bombing out” for a potentially strong winter storm in the forecast this weekend. Those are actual terms used by meteorologists when storm systems rapidly intensify as cold air collides with warm air. And the coastal storm that’s expected to form in the southeastern United States this Friday — potentially bringing heavy snow and fierce winds to New Jersey and other eastern states — might become strong enough to qualify as a bomb cyclone, according to forecasters from Acc…