The next atmospheric river is forecast to come through the Bay Area from Monday evening through Wednesday morning, bringing more wind, rain, and potential floods.

The National Weather Service is predicting wind gusts of up to 70 mph in some places around the Bay — which have the potential to snap tree branches and damage power lines.

Already, rain on Sunday prompted the NWS to issue Flood Advisories for Santa Clara and San Mateo counties from until 8:30 p.m., warning of minor flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas, as well as area creeks and streams, ABC7 reported.

The atmospheric river could bring 1 to 3 inches of rain to low-lying land, SFGATE reported, and 3 to 6 inches of rain to higher-elevation areas. The tallest parts of the Bay, like Mount Diablo and the Oakland and Berkeley foothills, might even see 8 inches of precipitation, Patrick Ayd, a meteorologist with NOAA, told SFGATE.

The weather system could also worsen flooding that’s already overwhelmed many parts of the Bay Area, including the levee failure in Monterey County that triggered the evacuation of the unincorporated community of Pajaro Saturday, KPIX reported.

In San Francisco, the city is still distributing sandbags for properties prone to flooding at the Public Works’ operations yard.

The upcoming atmospheric river should be relatively fast-moving, meteorologists say, so it shouldn’t dump as much rain as the past few storms.

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