Here’s some good news if you’re tired of lugging around that umbrella: Californians are about to get a break from the rainy season. The state’s wettest months started with a bang last week, as a swirling bomb cyclone pushed an atmospheric river against the West Coast.

A bomb cyclone and corresponding atmospheric river are bringing precipitation to Northern California. See satellite photos and videos of the storm.

The week begins with a Freeze Warning across the Valley on Monday night and goes on until Tuesday morning. Areas below 2,000 feet in elevation can expect overnight lows to drop below 36 degrees by Tuesday morning.

National Weather Service satellite images show a dramatic, churning cyclone approaching California's coast as parts of Northern California get battered by the atmospheric river.

In northern California, flood and high wind watches were in effect, with up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain predicted for parts of the San Francisco Bay Area, North Coast and Sacramento Valley.

The Bay Area and Northern California were seeing the impacts of a storm fueled by a strong atmospheric river and intensified by a bomb cyclone off the Pacific Northwest coast. The storm was bringing heavy rainfall and damaging winds which led to a series of power outages in the region.

Storm system is expected to weaken as it continues to chart a path over the Cascades and through to northern California and southwest Oregon by Friday

A gusty, rain-soaked storm swept through the Pacific Northwest and Northern California this week, killing at least two people and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of customers. The dangerous weather,

A third day of an atmospheric river storm has inundated Northern California and the Bay Area. For 15 years, former Texas schoolteacher Kayla Morris put every dollar she could save into a home for her growing family.