A furious storm unleashed from a 'bomb cyclone' over the Pacific Ocean slammed ashore Sunday in drought-plagued Northern California, blasting a wide swath of the West Coast with heavy rain, damaging winds, flooding and mudslides.
Meteorologist Jon Porter said. He described the river as a "firehose of moisture in the sky" capable of unleashing intense rain and mountain snow.A pedestrian carries an umbrella while walking on a path in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The National Weather Service Bay Area issued a plethora of flash flood watches, saying on Twitter: "Main concern will be 2020 burn scars but urban and small stream flooding likely as the heavy rain band passes through Sunday afternoon and night."Sunday. "This atmospheric river storm is expected to intensify with heavy rain and significant snow into tomorrow. Do NOT drive if you don't have to."it had thousands of workers ready to respond to outages.
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