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After a historic bomb cyclone blizzard, more snow looms for the Northeast

The bomb cyclone produced 1 to 3 feet of snow, causing over 10,000 flight cancellations and more than 500,000 power outages across the Northeast, with more snow expected.

  • On Monday, a bomb cyclone off the Northeast coast struck overnight Sunday into Monday, producing blizzard conditions and burying communities under 1 to 3 feet of snow.
  • Owen Shieh, warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center, explained the rapid pressure fall within 24 hours as Arctic and warmer air clashed, fueled by a 'Goldilocks' temperature profile.
  • Flight tracking data show massive cancelations from Sunday to Tuesday, with more than 10,000 US flights canceled and about 63% tied to LaGuardia, JFK and Newark Liberty International.
  • Power companies reported hundreds of thousands without electricity as outages surged to nearly 400,000 early Monday and more than 500,000 remained impacted by evening.
  • Forecasters say another system will reach the Northeast overnight into Wednesday, with most places seeing less than two inches and around 40 million people under winter alerts.
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The northeast is recovering from the extreme snowfalls and strong winds that hit the region during Sunday night and throughout Monday's day, causing blizzard conditions while more than 0.6 meters of snow covered several states. The storm reached the status of a cyclonic bomb in the early morning of Monday, by strengthening itself with extreme speed, intensifying the winds until turning into hurricane gusts and intensifying the snow bands. Local …

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After a historic bomb cyclone blizzard, more snow looms for the Northeast

Thousands in the Northeast remained without power amid freezing temperatures Tuesday morning as people from that region and the mid-Atlantic dug out from extreme snowfall – including more than 2 feet in several states – from the previous two days and faced continuing travel disruptions including hundreds of canceled flights.

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Fox Weather broke the news in on Monday, February 23, 2026.
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