Name: Bomb cyclone could drop 10 inches of snow on Southeast
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The latest developments on the bomb cyclone that's bringing heavy snow, a lot of winds, coastal flooding to the Southeast and mid Atlantic this weekend.

I mean, you look at live Earth cam footage from Asheville, look at this.

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Shows a lot of snow as multiple years worth of snow is expected in the Carolinas.

More than 27 million people across the region under winter weather alerts.

And many cities are still thawing out from last weekend's storm that killed more than 100 people, according to the Associated Press.

Plus, more than 160,000 homes and businesses are still without power across Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia and Louisiana.

Many outages lasting for a full week at this point.

And then even more dangerous than the snow is the bitter cold as far south as Miami.

They are expecting temperatures close to freezing.

CNN is covering the developments from multiple fronts.

I want to start with meteorologist Derek Van Dam in Virginia Beach.

Derek, what are the conditions there right now?

Just taking a casual stroll down the beach here in Virginia beach should be 51 degrees temperature right now.

What it feels like on your exposed skin is roughly 10 degrees.

This is just the precursor to what's to come.

The Arctic air mixed in with the potential of blizzard conditions.

The wind has been battering this coastline from extreme southeastern Virginia through Cape Hatteras, which is just to my north, or, excuse me, the Chesapeake Bay, and

then all the way down into the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

What we have potentially occurring here this evening and into the overnight as blizzard conditions with whiteout conditions.

Visibility is dropping to near zero in some instances, especially across some of these exposed coastal areas.

And this storm is going to pack quite a punch, not in terms of just the snow, but

also the potential of coastal flooding is.

And I want to show you two distinct areas of precipitation that we are monitoring.

One moving through Atlanta and into the Charlotte region.

Just look at how tumultuous the ocean is here.

You can see some of the seafoam getting pushed up by the northerly winds.

The other band of snow we're desperately waiting for here in Virginia beach is moving in.

And this is what we're concerned about, the potential of this storm coinciding with a high tide and exaggerated tide cycles because of the full moon that is occurring tonight and into tomorrow.

So with wind gusts of over 60 miles per hour, that's Tropical Storm force winds that will help push up the Atlantic Ocean, the angry Atlantic Ocean, which is responsible for this bomb cyclone because of the Arctic air interacting with the warm ocean waters and I want to show you this, too.

So the high tide that came in earlier this morning kind of pushed against the coastal areas here.

I can break off pieces of frozen sand here.

What the concern is that with the high tide and the strong winds that will push in from the ocean is coastal erosion being an impactful thing here right across the Outer Banks and into Virginia Beach.

So we're going to monitor that for the possibilities.

High tide, by the way, at 7:04 in the morning on Sunday, that's what we're most concerned about.

We have cold alerts all the way down to the Florida Keys.

Derek Van Dam, thanks for being there so I don't have to.

CNN national correspondent Diane Gallagher.

I could barely see you in Charlotte, North Carolina, just I can tell you I grew up in the South.

That is more snow than I think I have ever seen in North Carolina.

Does it look as wild in person as it does on TV here?

There's no way that the camera is capturing just how wild this actually is.

I, I worked in local news in Charlotte for several years and we had a really big Snowstorm back in 2014.

I was measuring out with my trusty ruler about an hour ago and we had about 5 plus inches out here in Cordelia park in Charlotte.

So we're surpassing that and heading close to what they.

Not close yet, but heading toward what we saw in 2004.

they talk about that still is one of the biggest snowstorms they have had in recent history.

And it is just still coming down right now.

There are still those concerns I talked about last hour about roads and safety and that ice that still is there from last weekend's ice storm and the impact on the Carolinas.

They're asking people to please stay off the road on top of probably not knowing how to drive in it.

And again, you're having a hard time seeing in some points.

But what we're also seeing are people who are having fun seeing snow like this for the first time in their life.

It's not really snow for making snowballs or snowmen right now.

It's great for sledding and we have creativity on display.

I'm actually going to talk to Juliet for just a quick second here because you said this is your first time ever sled, ever sledding.

We've got storage bins that actually kept our summer clothes in them, obviously took them all out.

And I'm going to do something that is ill advised on live television, but

Omar, we're gonna race actually on these storage bins to see if the bottom or the top is faster.

And Cam here is going to push both of us as we get in.

and see what we can get here at Cordelia park going down this.

Now, again, the concerns, Omar, remain those roads and the frigid temperatures telling people not to stay outside for long periods of time.

Also, Omar, they are treating those roads.

They put 5,500 tons of salt already on the roads.

They've got millions of gallons of brine, but still they are unsafe.