The US Weather Service reported that flash floods, rockslides, and landslides may occur as a consequence of the phenomenon.

Blizzard with gusty winds and 30 to 120 centimeters of snow at higher elevations are possible in the mountains of Northern California.

More than 470,000 customers are without power in Washington state as a result of the phenomenon, which developed into a bomb cyclone off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, with winds gusting to nearly 100 miles per hour (162 kilometers per hour).

The storm brought down a large number of life-threatening trees in Seattle, Washington, and neighboring cities.

As Wikipedia states, a bomb cyclone, also known as explosive cyclogenesis or bombgenesis, is a meteorological phenomenon that occurs when an extratropical cyclone rapidly intensifies.

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