PHOTOS: 'Bomb Cyclone' in Northern California Could Have Statewide Impact

Northern California storm brings record breaking rain and leads to flooding and other problems.

Here’s how one San Francisco Bay area news website is describing what has been going on in Northern California. “Sunday's ‘bomb cyclone’ and atmospheric river event…looked a lot more like the Category 3 and 4 hurricanes that we've watched from afar drenching the South and the eastern seaboard.”

And when you look at some of the radar images and satellite photos of the storm, they do resemble what you see when the Weather Channel is tracking hurricanes heading toward Florida or Texas.

This atmospheric river that has hit Northern California like a raging river with more rain than even expected and flooding roads, neighborhoods, and businesses. To call it unusual doesn’t seem strong enough, with words like historically unprecedented being used to describe it and spawning more talk about the effects of climate change.

If you’ve communicated with any family or friends in Northern California, they surely have words to describe it. Especially after many of them probably have been praying for rain after all the devastation and fears from the recent wildfires there.

But when there is this much rain and in one large but short burst, it may renew a push by some to develop plans to capture and save all this water instead of so much of it just running into rivers and then out into the ocean and instead storing it up for droughts, which are not unusual in California.

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