The first major storm of the season brought rain, snow and damaging winds to the California-Oregon region. Follow live updates on Redding.com

A powerful atmospheric river is unleashing torrential, flooding rainfall across Northern California and parts of the Pacific Northwest in the wake of a historically strong bomb cyclone — and another storm is on the way.

Northern California is being slammed by an intense atmospheric river which is bringing extreme amounts of rain and snow to the area, as well as southern Oregon.

Interstate 5 near the California-Oregon border and several other highways were closed Wednesday due to a winter storm. See which ones are affected.

A powerful atmospheric river-fueled storm lashing the Pacific Northwest left Northern California under a high risk for excessive rainfall and southern Oregon under moderate risk on Thursday night. The big picture: The heavy rain,