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Call it a bomb cyclone or a nor'easter, it's going to be a memorable storm for some folks along the East Coast as January turns to February.
The “bomb cyclone” about to wallop the East Coast has been referred to as a bombogenesis by meteorologists — leaving many scratching their heads. It’s also left Americans still digging themselves out of a foot or more of snowfall from last weekend’s Winter Storm Fern, worrying about being buried by another few inches.
Amid unrelenting frigid temperatures, a bomb cyclone off Long Island's Atlantic coast is expected to bring up to 3 inches of snow, high winds and beach erosion, particularly to the East End, forecasters said.
The National Weather Service is forecasting a "significant East Coast winter storm threat" for this weekend, with a coastal low forming Friday and rapidly intensifying into a bomb cyclone as it tracks up the Eastern Seaboard.
A life-threatening bomb cyclone is barreling towards the Northeast — threatening to slam New York City with even more snow and a record-breaking stretch of subfreezing temperatures. The powerful storm is expected to swirl into the city Saturday night or early Sunday, dumping up to 3 inches of snow in the already-buried Big Apple .