Bomb Cyclone Helped Increase Water Level in California Reservoirs

It'll take a lot more than one storm to end California's long-running drought, but the recent bomb cyclone that made landfall on the West Coast certainly helped.

While another storm of a similar scale is unlikely to hit the West Coast this week, there will be many rounds of rainy weather that will keep things moving in the right direction.

As a storm moves inland, it will deliver the first bout of rain and mountain snow to the West Coast on Monday. The San Francisco Bay Area and areas north will see significant rainfall from this storm, leaving the rest of Central and Southern California dry.

The rain will move inland throughout the day on Monday, extending throughout the Interstate 5 corridor from Northern California to Washington State. As the storm goes through, communities including Medford, Eugene, Salem, and Portland, Oregon, may expect a rainy commute.

By Tuesday, most of the wet and wintry weather will have moved into the Intermountain West, bringing with it another fresh layer of snow for the central Rockies' steep terrain.

In regions like Yellowstone National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Utah's Uinta Rockies, and northern Colorado's mountains, conditions may approach winter weather advisory criteria. However, any dangerous circumstances in these areas should be temporary, as dry weather is forecast on Wednesday as a ridge of high pressure rises in.

Another storm is likely to hit the West Coast this week, and it won't be long before another, perhaps more powerful disturbance arrives late Wednesday or early Thursday.

This will most certainly affect much of the same regions as the early-week storm, namely Central and Northern California.

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