Vintage 2018: Winter East Coast Bomb Cyclone

The New Year has brought some brutally cold temperatures, beginning with New Year's Eve with temperatures in the teens. New York City rang in 2018 in 9-degree weather, the coldest midnight temperature since 1907. My husband went to the vineyard yesterday where he took the following picture.

This week's forecast brings news of a bomb cyclone, characterized by a weather system that drops at least 24 millibars over 24 hours, in a process called bombogenesis. Winds could kick up to 55 mph just off the coast of New England, with hurricane force winds that could result in near blizzard conditions. How ominous does this look:

Crossing our fingers that the bombogenesis will fizzle before hitting us sometime later this evening.
References:
1. The East Coast Is About To Get Hit by a “Bomb Cyclone”.