A so-called bomb cyclone could deliver the biggest storm in 60 years to Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area this week, weather officials warned Nov. 18.
It’s been 60 years since the region experienced this type of storm, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Canepa, based in the San Francisco area.
Canepa likened it to the historic Columbus Day storm of October 1962, which hit the Northern California coast with the force of a Category 3 hurricane. Meteorologists at the time called the storm the most powerful cyclone ever to hit the western U.S., according to the Oregon Historical Society.
The storm would be the first atmospheric river system of the season, weather officials reported, and could dump up to 11 inches of rain in some areas, including northwestern Sonoma County….