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"Rain is expected to return later this week with significant showers in the forecast for this weekend, raising hopes that a Miracle March could make up for lost rain totals.A high-pressure zone on Monday pushed temperatures about 5 to 10 degrees above normal. Temperatures are forecast to hit a high of 80 in Gilroy and King City, 78 in Salinas, and 73 in Monterey.FORECAST: Get Your KSBW Local Weather Forecast\u201CEveryone\u2019s been asking, \u2018Where\u2019s the rain? Where\u2019s the rain?\u2019\u201D said Matt Mehle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Monterey.Hopefully, the coming week will provide some answers.The first weather pattern, coming in late Wednesday and continuing through Thursday, will bring lower temperatures and what weather experts call a \u201Cwetting rain,\u201D which is just a tenth to a quarter-inch of rain. Still, that\u2019s better than the one-hundredth to two-hundredths of an inch that sprinkled the region Friday evening.After a break Friday, a more significant pattern is expected. Forecasters predict as much as a half-inch to an inch could fall over the weekend. But even that\u2019s not guaranteed.\u201CIt\u2019s still a week out, so a lot can change from now and then,\u201D Mehle said.It\u2019s been 10 years since 6 inches of rain fell in San Francisco in March, making 2006 the last time enough rain fell in the month to be considered a Miracle March, Mehle said. Typically, the city gets about 3 inches of rain in March.But lots of rain in the month ahead could go a long way to normalize rain totals, which are hovering at about 82 percent of normal \u2014 or 3 inches short \u2014 in downtown San Francisco. Statewide, the snowpack averages at about 88 percent of normal.The shortfall has led many people to mistakenly conclude the Pacific warming phenomenon known as El Ni\u00F1o has been a bust, Mehle said. The rise in ocean temperatures that signifies the pattern has happened. But this time, much of the rain that normally comes to California in an El Ni\u00F1o year has stayed toward the Pacific Northwest.\u201CEl Ni\u00F1o is here. It is occurring, but unfortunately the resulting weather pattern is not,\u201D he said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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