Not even 24 hours after the last light showers fell along the tail end of an atmospheric river storm, the sprinklers turned back on ahead of a new storm that’s set to slam the region Monday.

That moisture from the southern part of the Pacific Ocean finally started touching land about 5 p.m. Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. It was enough to drop light rain primarily in the interior mountains of the North Bay and in the coastal ranges, and with a few areas of drizzle in the East Bay.

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Next comes the Monday bombardment, with rain likely falling hard enough to give those same North Bay interior mountains at least 3 inches of rain and areas of the North Bay and coastal ranges between 2 and 2½, according to the weather service. Areas of Alameda, Contra Costa

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