A major storm swept across the northwest U.S. Tuesday evening, battering the region with strong winds and rain and causing widespread power outages and downed trees that killed at least one person. The Weather Prediction Center issued excessive rainfall risks through Friday and hurricane-force wind warnings were in effect as the strongest atmospheric river — a large plume of moisture — that California and the Pacific Northwest

Hundreds of thousands of people are in the dark thanks to high winds from the bomb cyclone hitting Western Washington Tuesday night.

A potent storm system called a "bomb cyclone" will trigger powerfully windy weather for communities east of Seattle by Tuesday evening. It will create rare blizzard conditions for the Cascade passes.

WSDOT is warning ferry travelers to prepare for possible service disruptions as a powerful bomb cyclone storm makes its way toward western Washington.

Though that type of weather system doesn’t often develop near Washington, the last one that impacted the Pacific Northwest was earlier this year in January. Bomb cyclones are weather systems that form when the storm’s central pressure drops more than 24 millibars in 24 hours.

Over a month’s worth of rain, hurricane-force wind gusts and feet of mountain snow are coming to parts of the Pacific Northwest and Northern California.

Agencies were scrambling to respond to downed trees and power lines on roads across the region. Ferries and other transit services were also affected.

Thousands of people across western Washington were without power Tuesday night as a bomb cyclone brought strong winds to the region.

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