A low-pressure system headed for Northern California and Oregon is likely to bring extreme rain and strong winds.

A powerful bomb cyclone is ripping the Pacific Northwest with hurricane-strength winds as the season’s first atmospheric river comes ashore in Northern California, promising torrential rains, floods and mudslides across the region.

A powerful storm is bearing down on the West Coast and bringing with it a scary-sounding weather term. That term is bomb cyclone.

It may be sunny skies Tuesday, but an atmospheric river, supercharged through "bombogenesis," is about to hit the Bay Area. The weather phenomenon is barreling toward the West Coast and has plans to stick around Northern California for days,

Over a month’s worth of rain, hurricane-force wind gusts and feet of mountain snow are coming to parts of the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.

A powerful winter storm brewing near the Pacific Northwest known as a bomb cyclone is dragging an atmospheric river.

A powerful bomb cyclone will slam Washington, including Seattle, through parts of California. The West also faces High Wind Warnings associated with this major atmospheric river that'll bring flooding rain and feet of snow to the mountains.

Meanwhile, Southern California this week will see dry conditions amid gusty Santa Ana winds that could raise the risk of wildfires in areas where crews are still mopping up a major blaze that destroyed 240 structures.