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 first major atmospheric river system is pummeling the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, supercharged by a bomb cyclone. But officials still say it’s too early to determine what the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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" slammed the Pacific Northwest earlier ... that could bring up to 16 inches of rain to areas of Northern California and southwest Oregon, the service said. Rock slides and debris ...

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 ...

Northern California is being drenched by the first ... The slow-moving storm was strengthened by a so-called bomb cyclone, which describes how rapidly the system intensified in the Pacific before ...