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Instead, he wandered out into the rain and sat still, letting the water drench his body.

Heavy rains are predicted to drench the region from Sunday to Tuesday as a pair of late-season, back-to-back atmospheric rivers arrive, according to the National Weather Service Seattle.

An atmospheric river forming off the coast is on its way to drench the region beginning Sunday and into the early part of next week.

State officials say this tunnel would let the state capture more water when the state is hit by “atmospheric rivers” — large storms that can drench the state for weeks during the rainy season.

“I just remember seeing my classmates always sweating, and they’d even drench themselves in water from the water fountains,” Vue said in a phone interview, noting climate change is making heat waves longer and hotter, but they didn’t learn about that in school.