Next Winter Storm Could Be a Bomb Cyclone

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"Bomb Cyclone" Will Bring Blizzard to East Coast!

Is the East Coast Getting Hit with a Blizzard This Weekend?

The next winter storm could potentially become a bomb cyclone, a term used to describe a rapidly intensifying storm that rapidly drops in atmospheric pressure.

This could lead to significant winter weather conditions such as blizzards, strong winds, and freezing temperatures.

According to Accuweather the storm is expected to form off the ocast of the Carolinas and could bring snow to large swaths of the East Coast.

There is a threat for strong winds, capable of power outages and some tree damage, along at least parts of the East Coast from the Outer Banks of North Carolina to New England.

Exactly where and how far inland those high winds may occur is still uncertain, dependent again on the exact path and intensity of the storm.

It's a scary sounding phrase, but it turns out bomb cyclones happen about once a year off the East Coast in the colder months, feeding off the sharp contrast between cold air over land moving over the warmer ocean.

This East Coast storm will also likely become a nor'easter, a term for an East Coast storm in which the winds ahead — to the north — of the storm come from the northeast. Check the latest forecast.