Winter Storm Gianna is expected to rapidly intensify as it moves up the East Coast this weekend, bringing heavy snow, damaging winds and coastal flood concerns to parts of the Eastern Seaboard.

Winter Storm Gianna will become a nor’easter this weekend, bringing heavy snow, strong winds and coastal flooding to parts of the Southeast.

The rapidly strengthening storm, known as a bomb cyclone, is expected to bring snow and wind to the southern Appalachians, Carolinas and southern Virginia Saturday before heading up the East Coast to ...