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Expect a Little Rain Before the Sunny Weekend
With below-average January rainfall, Palo Alto could use the precipitation.
Trade your sunglasses for rain boots, at least for the next two days.
Light rainstorms—and possibly even a little thunderstorm—are forecasted Thursday and Friday in Palo Alto, but the wet weather is expected to clear up by the weekend and the chilly, dry, sunny winter days should return, the National Weather Service reported.
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After torrential downpours in November and December, the beginning of 2013 has been one of the driest on record in Northern California. It's stayed dry because a strong, high-pressure bubble over Northern California and the Pacific has rebuffed storms for the past month, a National Weather Service meteorologist told the San Francisco Chronicle.
The dry spell isn't severe enough to cause worry yet—the Sierra snowpack is still remarkably close to average—but forecasters also said it doesn't look like that high-pressure system is ready to move on yet.
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(to date) Fairfield 1.48 5.75 (missing) 0.60 (missing) n/a Mount Hamilton 0.48 5.22 (missing) 1.15 (missing) n/a Napa 1.51 4.80 7.87 0.34 14.52 101% SFO 0.70 4.50 7.11 (missing (missing) n/a San Francisco 1.47 4.50 7.11 0.49 13.57 109% Santa Cruz 0.53 5.56 7.95 0.90 14.94 92% Watsonville 0.41 2.98 7.89 0.72 12.00 98%
Rain in Palo Alto is expected Thursday afternoon, with possible scattered showers and thunderstorms on Friday, according to the National Weather Service.
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