The Boston Globe
The US news site reports that a “bomb cyclone” of a winter storm barraged much of eastern Massachusetts yesterday (Saturday), cutting power to hundreds of thousands of people, disrupting travel, and leaving officials scrambling to assess the damage.
It said with its blinding snow and punishing winds, the "nor’eastern", which had been expected to hit the US north-east and mid-Atlantic regions, drew comparisons to the devastating blizzard of 1978, which dumped more than 27in of snow on Boston. The National Weather Service dubbed the storm a “bomb cyclone,” essentially a winter hurricane, as a result of a rapid drop in air pressure and strengthening of the storm.
