By John Schwing

WESTPORT — The third wet, windy winter storm in a week has left swaths of Westport under water Saturday.

The overnight storm, which lashed the region with more than an inch of rain driven by wind gusts clocked at 50 to 60 mph, unleashed flooding Saturday over the banks of the Saugatuck River and in low-lying coastal areas.

In advance of the storm, the National Weather Service had issued warnings about the potential for damage from high winds and flooding.

The storm, which moved into the Westport area Friday night and continued through early-morning Saturday, capped a week that began with a snowstorm last Saturday and a coastal rain-and-wind disruption overnight Tuesday.

At noon Saturday — as a high tide was cresting — Westport emergency officials issued an alert about flooding along the local shoreline, warning people not to drive through the rising water and urging that vehicles be moved to higher ground.

Remarkably, few local power outages were reported, with scattered service disruptions early Saturday, but all were restored later in the morning, according to Eversource.

Saturday afternoon’s mostly clear skies should continue Sunday morning, although there is a 30 percent chance of snow showers later in the day, the NWS predicts.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday on Monday will  be mostly sunny and cold, according to the forecast, with high temperatures reaching only the freezing mark.

Tuesday, however, has a high probability of more snow, the weather service says.