A major Nor’easter is on its way, with snowfall expected from late Sunday night through all of Monday.
Low pressure developing off the Mid-Atlantic coast will rapidly intensify over the next 24 hours, developing into what’s known as a meteorological bomb, with very low pressure south of Nantucket on Monday morning.
Meteorologists use the term “bombogenesis” when storms intensify at least one millibar every hour for 24 hours. A millibar is a unit of pressure — think of it like a unit of measure for the air on top of us. At that rate of intensification, they’re often accompanied by very strong wind and heavy precipitation. Massachusetts is set to get both…