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Almost 3 inches of rain fell during a soggy 36-hour stretch Thursday and Friday. Flood watches remain in place for the Siuslaw and Mohawk rivers.

The latest atmospheric river to swim over Lane County dropped nearly 3 inches of rain during a soggy 36 hours in Eugene Thursday and early Friday.

More rain is on the way through the weekend, although nothing like the deluge that drenched the city Thursday, forecasters at the National Weather Service in Portland said Friday, Dec. 19.

Flood warnings remained in place through Friday night for the Siuslaw River near Mapleton and the Mohawk River near Springfield, the weather service said.

Sebastian Westerink, a meteorologist with the weather service, said 2.94 inches of rain were recorded at Eugene Airport in the 36 hours ending at about 11:30 a.m. Friday. Most of that rain, about 2.76 inches, fell Thursday.

Areas in the Coast Range and the Cascade foothills got even more rain, Westerink said, with rain gauges in those areas showing 4 to 5 inches — and one location recording more than 6 inches.

Near Mapleton, the Siuslaw River was reported at 20.8 feet at 8 a.m. Friday; flood stage for the river is 18 feet, so minor flooding of low-lying land is expected. The river has crested, the weather service said, and is expected to drop below flood stage late Friday.

The Mohawk River near Springfield was running at 15 feet — flood stage — as of 7:45 a.m. Friday, so minor flooding is expected. The river is expected to crest at 16.5 feet Friday afternoon and should fall below flood stage later Friday.

Lane County road maintenance crews worked overnight on the coast, responding to downed trees and several small landslides, Devon Ashbridge, the county’s public information officer, said in an email.

A somewhat larger slide closed North Fork Siuslaw Road for several hours, she said, but the road reopened at about 2:30 p.m. Friday.

By Friday afternoon, Ashbridge said, water in affected areas generally was receding. For example, she said, “Sunderman Road in Marcola is a typical high-water location during heavy rain and we saw some flooded yards and roadsides out there.”

A pump on Jasper Road, southeast of Springfield, stopped working for a few hours, allowing water to gather on the road underneath a railroad trestle. An electrician repaired the pump, and the water was removed by Friday afternoon.

Ashbridge urged residents to use caution Friday night and Saturday morning, especially when it’s dark and high water is difficult to see.

At the National Weather Service, Westerink said the forecast for Lane County calls for “off-and-on shower activity” through the weekend. “You might get a brief heavy shower, but in terms of grand totals, we’re not going to see too much more rain relative to the amount that we just got now,” he said.

And that weather pattern is likely to stick throughout the last two weeks of the year, he said. “So we’re just seeing our usual climatology, just a good amount of rain.”

Mike McInally is a Pacific Northwest journalist with four decades of experience in Oregon and Montana, including stints as editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times and the Albany Democrat-Herald.