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 bomb cyclone is taking aim at the Pacific Northwest and northern California with hurricane force winds forecast to gust up to 70 mph with as much as 15 inches of rain and heavy snow in the mountains.

LOS ANGELES - More than a foot of rain, along with potential hurricane-force winds, via the "bomb cyclone" is coming for the West Coast this week. Fox 11 Chief Meteorologist Adam Krueger says the warning map is "lit up" from Northern California to Oregon and Washington.