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Storm to bring snow, then explode as 'bomb cyclone'

January 07, 2018 01:00·
It's going to be snowy and very cold

It's going to be snowy and very cold

It's part of a major wind storm moving up the East coast that's bringing ice, freezing rain, snow and strong winds.

Behind the storm, we are expecting the coldest air of the season for the Northeast.

Bombogenesis occurs "when a midlatitude cyclone rapidly intensifies, dropping at least 24 millibars over 24 hours, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)".

Public schools in New York City have also been closed for Thursday.

"It will be massive", National Weather Service meteorologist Ryan Maue warned on Twitter Tuesday.

A winter storm set to hit the East Coast beginning Wednesday could break all-time record cold temperatures by the end of the week. The storm in question, which will impact coastal areas from Georgia to ME, is given its extreme name because of the predicted rapid pressure drop, an indication of the storm's strength. This could make the storm as strong as a hurricane, and 30-50 miles per hour winds will batter the coast.

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In Gainesville, Fla., the National Weather Service reported that a mix of snow, freezing rain and sleet was possible for about seven hours on Wednesday beginning at 3 a.m. Temperatures are expected to dip to 33 degrees.

Wednesday's winter storm warning in Tallahassee was the first in nearly four years, reported The Weather Channel.

Take a look at how New York City is coping. Winter Storm Warnings have been issued across the Florida Big Bend and south central Georgia areas.

"It's snowing in Tallahassee!" Parts of the Florida panhandle saw snow in December.

In the 1940s, some meteorologists began informally calling some big coastal storms "bombs" because they develop "with a ferocity we rarely, if ever, see over land", said Fred Sanders, a retired MIT professor, who brought the term into common usage by describing such storms in a 1980 article in the journal Monthly Weather Review.

As Jason Samenow of The Washington Post's Capital Weather Gang reports, "A monster storm will hammer coastal locations from Georgia to ME with ice and snow". Roads won't be plowed with the speed seen in places like OH or MI.

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