A man pushes his way through a winter snowstorm in Atlantic City, New Jersey , on January 4, 2018.
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Pictures Show East Coast Coping With Bomb Cyclone
For those brave enough to endure it, the storm is both frightening and beautiful.
The new year has started off with a bang—or a bomb to be more precise.
A bomb cyclone (also called a weather bomb and bombogenesis) is sweeping through the eastern United States, bringing intense hurricane-force winds, blizzard conditions, and rare snowfall for some southern states.
These intense wintry conditions were ushered in by what meteorologists technically refer to as a midlatitude cyclone. The "bomb" terminology refers to an intense drop of pressure by at least 24 millibars (a unit used to measure atmospheric pressure) in under 24 hours.
As the storm moves through, winter air from the northern polar vortex is expected to sweep in. Subzero temperatures will be felt in some regions, and record lows could be broken
