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A late-season storm that broke a San Francisco record this week could push back the start of peak fire season in the area.<\/p>

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Roger Gass, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said the storm that arrived in the early morning hours on Thursday dropped 0.6 inch of rain in San Francisco, breaking the previous same-day record of 0.59 inch set in 1998.<\/p><\/div>

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Areas outside of the city experienced relatively moderate rainfall, with parts of the North Bay getting up to 0.75 inch and Oakland recording 0.29 inch, Gass said.\u00a0South of Santa Cruz, the coastal ranges and Big Sur recorded up to 1.34 inches of rain in places.<\/p><\/div>

Falling shortly after Memorial Day, the rain wasn\u2019t particularly heavy, but it comes at a key time when summer weather could bring hot and dry conditions to California, increasing the risk of wildfires.<\/p><\/div>

This year, 10 wildfires in the state have already surpassed\u00a01,000 acres, according to\u00a0Cal Fire. Seven of those fires started this month.<\/p><\/div>

Gass said the latest bit of wet weather will mean a \u201ctemporary pause\u201d on fire danger for the region as fuels such as dry grasses and brush rehydrate. The risk of a major wildfire in the area will \u201cprobably be delayed\u201d by as much as two weeks, he explained.<\/p><\/div>

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Cal Fire Battalion Chief Brent Pascua told SFGATE the timing of increased wildfire risk will depend on what happens with next week\u2019s weather, especially if this last storm encouraged new grasses to grow.<\/p><\/div>

\u201cThose new grasses that came from this rain are going to dry out and die quickly, and we\u2019ll be back to that elevated threat of wildfire,\u201d Pascua\u00a0said.<\/p>

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This summer could be particularly rough,\u00a0Pascua said, after an extreme heat wave baked the state for much of March.<\/p><\/div>

\u201cThe snowpack melted early, dried out a lot of the fuels throughout the state, and got us into peak fire season a lot earlier than we\u2019re used to here in California,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/div>

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