Icy snow ‘bomb’ to sock NYC

Icy ‘cyclone’ blast due

A massive winter storm called a “bomb cyclone” is set to batter the Northeast this week — leaving the city blanketed in snow and battling fierce winds and temps as low as 4 degrees, meteorologists say.

“The problem is the timing,” said Accu Weather meteorologist Dave Dombek on Tuesday. “It will definitely impact the Thursday-morning commute.”

Manhattan is set to get three inches of snow starting at around 5 or 6 a.m. Thursday. Parts of Queens, Brooklyn and Long Island should brace for at least double that, experts warned.

And while the city is expected to “warm up’’ to the mid-20s Thursday, a blast of arctic air will cause temps to plummet again by Friday, to a high in the teens or less.

On Saturday, even the high will only hover around 9 degrees.

“There is a deep freeze coming up Saturday into Sunday,’’ Dombek said.

The coldest day on record for Jan. 6 was in 1896, when temperatures fell to minus-2 degrees, he said.

“I don’t expect we will break that, but we’ll be coming close,” the meteorologist said.

The storm is called a “bomb cyclone’’ because its pressure can drop so drastically that it’s like an explosion, experts said.

“All day Thursday, meteorologists are going to be glued to the new GOESEast satellite, watching a truly amazing extratopical ‘bomb’ cyclone off New England coast,” tweeted Ryan Maue of Weather.us.

“It will be massive — fill up entire Western Atlantic off U.S. East Coast. Pressure as low as Sandy & hurricane winds,” he wrote.

Maue said it was possible that “extremely dangerous cold from brutal wind chills will wreck the Midwest and Northeast during day Friday into Saturday.”

“Record lows likely at most locations,” he added.