A second powerful wind storm, called a "bomb cyclone," will hit the U.S. Pacific Northwest by Thursday evening, even as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power from the torrential rain and snow still falling from the first one.

A second powerful wind storm, called a “bomb cyclone,” will hit the Pacific Northwest by this evening, even as hundreds of thousands of people remain without power from the torrential rain and snow still falling from the first one.

Although there will be another round of rain and high winds, a storm brewing in the Pacific Ocean and headed for the Oregon Coast will not be another bomb cyclone when it reaches land on Thursday night.