The image below from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows the bomb cyclone and the atmospheric river below it dumping precipitation on Northern California and surrounding states.

The season’s first major atmospheric river system is pummeling much of Northern California and and the Pacific Northwest, supercharged by a bomb cyclone. The monster storm is kicking off ...

The Bay Area and Northern California were seeing the impacts of a storm fueled by a strong atmospheric river and intensified by a bomb cyclone off the Pacific Northwest coast. The storm was ...

California, Oregon and Washington were expected to withstand the brunt of the bomb cyclone. A bomb cyclone occurs when a storm's pressure drops quickly, which intensifies the storm and ramps up ...

The term "bomb cyclone" does pop up from time to time in weather stories. Here's what it means: What is a bomb cyclone, exactly? Bomb cyclone is a term given to a rapidly strengthening storm that ...

easily doubling the 24-millibar drop in 24 hours that characterizes a bomb cyclone. Occasionally moderate rain arrived in Northern California overnight and fell steadily Wednesday. Eureka on the ...

Languages: English. A third winter storm is on its way to California, with forecasts anticipating that it will hit the Golden State on Friday, only days after a bomb cyclone unleashed hurricane ...

Don’t be fooled by the sunny start to the week: An intense bomb cyclone storm is approaching California, bringing as much as 8 inches of rain with it in the coming days. A bomb cyclone occurs ...

A bomb cyclone off the West Coast has torn through the Pacific Northwest and threatens to endanger parts of Northern California (Photo by CIRA/RAMMB via Courthouse News) OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — What ...

as the system rapidly strengthened — to the tune of a bomb cyclone — before pummeling Northern California and southern Oregon with dangerous winds and heavy rains that could cause disruptions ...