The rain may have given way to partially cloudy skies late Sunday afternoon, but those clouds won’t make way for the sun anytime soon. As another day of rain and flash flood watches came to a close, weather forecasters only had more bad news for a region already drenched from days of seemingly endless downpours and impressive thunder and lightning.

“We’re certainly in a wet weather pattern,” said Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman for the National Weather Service in Silver Spring. “They’ll be a chance of rain all week … and during the early part of the week the chances of rain are going to be above average. We won’t go completely dry until maybe Sunday.”