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- Winter Storm Riley is hammering the East Coast with rain, sleet, and intense winds on Friday.
- The nor’easter is undergoing the rapid intensification process known as “bombogenesis,” a term meteorologists use to describe storms that become so-called bomb cyclones.
- This isn’t uncommon for nor’easters, but this one is expected to be particularly bad.
- Record flooding in Boston is possible for the second time this winter.
At the start of the year, a nor’easter intensified so quickly that it became what meteorologists call a “bomb cyclone.”
It appears that’s happening again.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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