(Reuters] – On Sunday, a powerful storm drenched California’s wildfire-scarred north. This triggered mudslides as well as downing power lines. Winds blasted San Francisco and created a “bomb cyclone”, which headed south.

Marc Chenard from the Weather Prediction Center, National Weather Service stated that rain could reach as high as 10 inches on the West Coast.

“It’s an atmosphere river already moving through Northern California,” he said. He also described the storm in a bomb cyclone, an extreme weather event that occurs when the barometric tension drops rapidly.

This weather whiplash is a result of the California wildfire season’s busiest and most severe fire season. Much of the region is in severe, extreme or exceptional drought, as classified by the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Chenard stated that “burn scars are the areas where water tends to runoff faster so that’s where there’s greatest flash flooding risks.” There are flash flood warnings around burn scars that can cause severe flooding.

Numerous mudslides have already been reported on some of the 570,000 acres (223,670 ha) that were blackened by Dixie Fire, which he described as the state’s second-largest wildfire.

San Francisco saw winds gusting to 50 miles an hour. This caused power outages in Sacramento. Sacramento residents posted photos on Twitter of utility poles falling onto cars, blocking the roads, and even predicting rain of up to 5 inches.

In Sacramento, evacuation centers opened and sandbags were distributed. Sacramento Office of Emergency Service tweets “Remember, don’t drive through standing waters!” Turn around, don’t drown!”

Chenard indicated that snow is expected at higher elevations.

Chenard declared, “It is a quite impressive storm system.” “It is happening right now, and it will continue to the next day. The trend will shift southward in Central California tomorrow and tonight.