A powerful atmospheric river is expected to strike northern California and the Pacific Northwest on Tuesday evening, bringing damaging winds, up to 15 inches of rain and heavy snow in the mountains. The National Weather Service said wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph are expected along the coastlines of northern California,

A series of storms fueled by a strong atmospheric river is taking aim at the Bay Area and Northern California, intensified by a so-called "bomb cyclone" that promises heavy rain and potential flooding.

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,