After hitting the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday, the storm system is expected to arrive in Southern California on Thursday.

An atmospheric river has begun to slam California that is expected to bring days of heavy rain, strong wind gusts and potentially feet of mountain snow to the Golden State through early next week, ushering in the regions rainy season.

On Thursday at 8:14 p.m. the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA issued a wind advisory in effect until Friday at 9 p.m. The advisory is for Santa Barbara County Interior Mountains, Southern Ventura County Mountains,

If rain falls as forecast, this storm could result in downtown Los Angeles seeing its wettest November since 1985. Heavy rain brings the possibility of damaging flooding and landslides.

A strong atmospheric river is bringing impacts across California, including flooding rain to Los Angeles later this week.

A powerful low-pressure system is forecast to bring heavy rain, gusty winds and possible thunderstorms to the Los Angeles area beginning Thursday night and continuing through the weekend, with mountain areas potentially receiving up to 4 inches of rainfall,

A wind-whipped Southern California brush fire that exploded to 20,000 acres in about 24 hours, destroying homes and prompting mass evacuations, remained out of control Thursday as Gov. Gavin Newsom rallied state and federal resources to battle the blaze.

Winter storm warnings spanned Mono County, as well as the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite National Park to Tulare County.