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“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.

A mostly cloudy Sunday was set to segue into “some rain movement overnight and tomorrow morning,” said Kristan Lund, a meteorologist with the federal agency’s Oxnard office.

It functions like a National Weather Service for infectious diseases, harnessing data and expertise to predict the course of outbreaks like a meteorologist warns of storms.

“It’s going to be at least a week — eight or nine days — of this off-and-on rainy and cool pattern,” said Mike Wofford, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Oxnard.