Following the bomb cyclone, the region faces days of rain, flooding and snow at higher elevations, the National Weather Service said Wednesday. That's part of an atmospheric river that could bring over a foot of rain to some areas.

A powerful atmospheric river is slamming into Northern California and is expected to persist for days. Its effects, coupled with a bomb cyclone offshore, are being felt across the Pacific Northwest.

A powerful storm was clobbering Washington state on Wednesday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands while wreaking havoc on road travel and causing at least one death and two injuries. A woman was killed on Tuesday when a tree fell on a homeless encampment in Lynnwood,