Despite all the rain and flooding, there was some good news on the weather front as of last night.

"It's not raining quite as hard as it did Saturday night, and the area of rain continues to shrink as the dry air tries to move in along either side of the rain bands," said National Weather Service meteorologist John Cannon last night, from his post in Gray, Maine.

However, the bad news prevailed, as a heavy corridor of rain was expected to continue pelting southeastern New Hampshire through the night, Cannon said.

Two weeks into the month, rainfall totals in Concord were expected to wash out the May record of 9.52 inches set in 1984, Cannon said. Official totals have been tracked since 1864.

"Concord's already had 8.59 inches, as of 4 p.m.," Cannon said, so that's well on its way to being beat."

Other rain totals for the month, as of 7 p.m., included 9.16 inches in Manchester, 8.92 in Merrimack and 8.4 in southern Weare, said meteorologist Alan Dunham, working out of the Weather Service's Taunton, Mass., office.

Dunham said the next weather glitch will likely arrive tomorrow, when another wet system arrives to soak the Connecticut River Valley area all the way down through western Massachusetts and into Connecticut.

"This is not an everyday occurrence," Dunham said. "We've had a persistent band of rain pumping in water from the Atlantic Ocean since Friday, and it hasn't wanted to let go of its grip."

He said conditions in southern parts of the state over the weekend were worsened by flooding in northeastern Massachusetts, where yesterday more than 11 inches of rain was measured.

"That serves to back up New Hampshire's river systems," Dunham said.

Flood warnings were issued yesterday by both weather outposts for most of New Hampshire, excluding extreme northern communities.

"Rain, through the night and into the morning. That's what to expect. There will be a little break in the rain around noon, but it's within the realm of possibility to see another half-inch overnight into Tuesday," Dunham said.

Auburn resident Elizabeth Duck was weathering the weekend storm as best she could.

"The outlook for this week is not great, although if I were a true duck, I suppose I'd be delighted with the forecast," Duck said.

She was carefully watching some puddles forming in her garage and a leak in her bathroom.

"I'll tell you, the water is taking its toll — even for a Duck like me," she said. "What I'm really worried about are my 'cousins,' the loons, who are nesting right now on Lake Massabesic. The water is quite high and I'm most worried about what might happen to them."