Historic 1968 Atlantic “Bomb” Storm Revisited: How a Powerful Offshore Cyclone with an Eye Mirrors Modern East Coast Systems
UNITED STATES — Long before social media and round-the-clock weather coverage, a powerful non-tropical cyclone in 1968 rapidly intensified off the East Coast — strong enough to display a clear eye-like feature on early satellite imagery. While many residents don’t remember it, largely because it stayed 100–150 miles offshore, archived surface maps show a classic…
