Heavy precipitation is falling mostly in mountain areas. A flood watch in also in effect for the coast of central California, including the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento Valley.

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletter to get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.A​n atmospheric river will continue to soak parts of California with locally flooding rain early this week,

A persistent trough of low pressure has parked itself along the Pacific Northwest. As it spins counterclockwise it is pumping in a lot of moisture from the West