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Storm Soaks South, Central Coasts

The South and Central Coasts are being soaked as a storm brings wet weather to the region throughout the weekend.

Ventura County experiences heavy rain on Saturday. By the afternoon, the heavy rain shifts to Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

"The low pressure system in the Gulf of Alaska is really helping stream this moisture up across California," National Weather Service Meteorologist Rich Thompson said. "You might have heard the term, 'the Atmospheric River.' That's what this is.  And, so, you have these sort of patterns set up -- gets you rain all up and down the state of California."

This storm system will bring even more rain to the region on Sunday.  Wet weather is expected to begin on the Central Coast on Sunday afternoon and on the South Coast around midnight. 

It will likely produce more rainfall than Saturday's bout of wet weather -- one to two-and-a-half-inches for Ventura County, one-and-a-half to three inches for Santa Barbara County and two to our inches for San Luis Obispo County. 

There will be lingering showers on Monday, but it'll dry out by the evening.