Eastern US braces for winter ‘bomb cyclone’

Published January 4, 2018 1:32am ET



Less than a week after President Trump suggested the U.S. could use some “good old global warming,” rare accumulating snow fell in Southeast states like Florida while the Northeast is bracing for a so-called “bomb cyclone” of intense winter weather.

As flights are being cancelled at a rapid clip, “bitterly cold temperatures and dangerous wind chills” will persist all across the Eastern states into the weekend and winter storm warnings have been issued for parts of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut, according to the National Weather Service.

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