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Saturday’s rain should dissipate around noon, and “spotty and sparse” showers will continue throughout the day, said National Weather Service meteorologist Bryan Lewis.

“It’s going to be cooler, cloudy and wet on Saturday,” said Carol Smith, a National Weather Service meteorologist based in Oxnard.

At the weather service office in Sacramento, meteorologists facing extremely short staffing said they will now only issue condensed daily forecast discussions once a day, according to an email sent to its partners.

“We could break records tomorrow and Friday for Palm Springs, and maybe some areas in the Coachella Valley,” Sebastian Westerink, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in San Diego, said Wednesday.

As any UK meteorologist will tell you, snow is more likely to fall at Easter than it is at Christmas, although this is more accurate when Easter falls earlier on in the calendar.