Powerful Nor’easter bomb cyclone to slam Northeast cities with biggest snowstorm in years, dumping over a foot –Snow totals Sunday night into Monday could top 12-18 inches in New York City and Boston during this storm | 20 Feb 2026 | Millions along the Interstate 95 corridor in the Northeast are bracing for impacts from a powerful Nor’easter bomb cyclone that will dump significant snowfall across much of the region starting Sunday. Snow forecasts have increased yet again, now making the brewing storm one of the biggest snowstorm threats in years for major Northeast cities like New York City. The storm will start to come together on Sunday afternoon as an area of low pressure rapidly strengthens as it moves off the coast of North Carolina. Forecast data shows the Nor’easter tracking dangerously close to the East Coast, delivering heavy snow from Virginia to Maine starting Sunday evening. In addition to classic Nor’easter traits, this storm will also go through bombogenesis, where the central pressure of a storm drops 24 millibars in 24 hours.