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.

Winter Storm Gianna is forecast to become a bomb cyclone, bringing snow, winds, and coastal flooding from New England to the Carolinas.

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 .

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.

Arctic air is set to blast Massachusetts on Thursday, dropping temperatures to dangerous levels across the state while another snowstorm could be looming over the weekend. The National Weather Service has issued a Cold Weather Advisory for the entire state from 7 p.

A bomb cyclone is a name that was given to the atmospheric process of 'explosive cyclogenesis' and is used to describe a quickly and deeply strengthening storm. It has also been referred to as 'bombogenesis.'

After much of the United States was pummeled by winter weather over the last week, another storm is poised to impact the East Coast beginning Friday. According to meteorologists, the storm is expected to bring snow,