The US East Coast is bracing itself for a “bomb cyclone” that is on course to to barrel in from the mid-Atlantic on Friday, the nor’easter forecast to travel up the Eastern Seaboard and bring heavy snowfall along with the chill and potentially threatening wider disruption to power supplies and travel.
The National Weather Service has predicted the possibility of six to 12 inches of snow between Friday night and Saturday evening, with states from North Carolina to Massachusetts by way of New York and New Jersey braced for blizzard conditions.
