Up to 16 inches (about 41 centimeters) of rain was forecast in southwestern Oregon and California’s northern counties through Friday. A ‘bomb cyclone’ is bearing down on the West Coast.

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 ...

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.

A bomb cyclone pounding Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with heavy rain and strong winds was already blamed for two deaths and will likely fuel flooding, rock slides, debris flows ...

A powerful winter storm, brewing this week over Northern California and the Pacific Northwest, is what meteorologists call a bomb cyclone. And it’s dragging an atmospheric river with it ...

From space, the storm spans a vast section of the Northern Pacific, highlighting its scale. The past two winters have seen ...

Bomb cyclones have impacted the U.S. a few times ... The NWS predicted last month the seasonal temperatures in northern California and the Pacific Northwest would remain about the same between ...

SEATTLE (AP) — Northern California and parts of the Pacific ... The storm system is considered a “ bomb cyclone,” which occurs when a cyclone intensifies rapidly. The areas that could ...

Northern California could see heavy rain ... experts call a “bombogenesis,” commonly referred to as a “bomb cyclone.” Here’s what you need to know: “Atmospheric rivers are relatively ...

SEATTLE — Northern California and the Pacific Northwest are ... has intensified so quickly that it is considered a “ bomb cyclone,” explained Richard Bann, a meteorologist with the National ...