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This storm actually deepened 42 millibars in the last 2a hours, meaning it is nearly double the criteria of a bomb cyclone, so it is a very, very powerful storm. and what kind of threat does this storm pose? quite a lot. we started out as i mentioned with the wet, heavy snow clinging to trees and power lines, so we have power outage issues. that's obviously dangerous as the temperatures are dropping tonight, lots of people without heat and electricity. a little bit further to the west, and now that we're getting the colder air, we're worried about blowing snow, significantly reducing visibilit...

The storm is intensifying. the intensity of a storm is measured by its minimum central pressure, barometric pressure. if the storm's pressure drops more than 2a millibars in 2a hours at considered meteorologically a bomb cyclone. this storm actually deep and 42 millibars in the last 2a hours, meaning it is nearly double the criteria of a bomb cyclone, so it is a very, very powerful storm. and what kind of threat does this storm pose? quite a lot. as i mentioned, we started out with the wet, heavy snow clinging to trees and power lines, so we have power outage issues. that's obviously dangerous...

The u.s. west coast is going to get. we turn to our meteorologist pedram javaheri. sort of getting it from both sides here. >> absolutely. the west coast going to get all this rainfall, of course, and the east coast getting wet snowfall copping down. we've had power outage issues. we've had flights on the order of one thousand being delayed. 3,000 flights being delayed i should say, one thousand canceled across the united states on tuesday. you take a look. rainfall totals, record amounts coming out of la guardia and also jfk's international airports. about 3.5 inches in one day. talk about a ...

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