Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.A 'bomb cyclone' has become one of the northeast Pacific's strongest storms on record,

A powerful winter storm brewing near the Pacific Northwest known as a bomb cyclone is dragging an atmospheric river.

A powerful bomb cyclone will slam Washington, including Seattle, through parts of California. The West also faces High Wind Warnings associated with this major atmospheric river that'll bring flooding rain and feet of snow to the mountains.