A once-in-a-decade bomb cyclone is taking shape off the West Coast
A powerful “bomb cyclone” will combine with an atmospheric river to unleash over a month’s worth of rain, hurricane-force wind gusts and feet of mountain snow to parts of the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.
A storm system off the Pacific Northwest is expected to rapidly intensify on Tuesday in a phenomenon called “bombogenesis” and earn it the moniker of “bomb cyclone.” It will intensify so much so quickly that it could become a “triple-bomb,” tripling the criteria needed to be considered a bomb cyclone, the National Weather Service in San Francisco said.
Bomb cyclones are formidable and unload heavy snow and strong winds during the winter. This one could be among the most intense on record for its location, a storm that occurs only “about once every ten years,” and will generate “some of the strongest winds we have seen in several years” that churn up “very dangerous mountainous seas of 30 to 35 feet,” the National Weather Service in Medford, Oregon, said.
This bomb cyclone will work with an atmospheric river, a long plume of water vapor moving like a river through the atmosphere, to wring out heavy rainfall and significant mountain snowfall in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California beginning Tuesday. The pair will stall along the coast and hammer the area with hazardous conditions through the week and into the weekend.
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Stunning image of the storm off the Pacific Northwest Coast...
That's quite a whomping headed this way...
I called it a "CobraJet" lol
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probably going to show up & show out anywhere from the early afternoon through the early evening. I'm at my Sacramanto county home , NORTH of both the City & most, if not all of Marin county. We're pretty much at the same latitude with Sonoma County. I'm ALMOST in Sutter County.
Right glad TAMEETCHA...Been here since 2005.
Hopefully it's over and done by then and roads plowed since I'm not real good driving on snow and ice. Especially an 8 passenger van even if it does have all weather tires.
Best of luck to y'all in Northern California and the Pacific NW!
Glad I don’t live in the hills anymore.
But, leave us not forget that there's no such thing as CLIMATE CHANGE. 
