An intense atmospheric river is expected to bring heavy rain, snow and winds to the Northwest after making landfall on Nov. 19. (Video: CSU/CIRA & NOAA) By Ian Livingston , Joshua Partlow and Karla Marie Sanford

After rapid intensification of a historically intense bomb cyclone off the Pacific Northwest coast, damaging wind gusts and power outages struck the Seattle region, killing at least two people — and the storm’s onslaught is just getting started. Attention is now shifting to a powerful atmospheric river battering the West Coast.

The atmospheric river — a thin band of copious tropical moisture — will unleash its fire hose while crawling along. Day after day of heavy precipitation threatens to produce life-threatening flooding. The heaviest rain is expected between Eureka, C

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