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6:30 p.m., July 11, 2009

Fire in Los Padres National Forest

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Parched SoCal pins rain hopes on fickle El Niño

Bill Patzert calls it the “great wet hope.”

“You say ‘El Niño’ and everyone’s eyes light up,” said Patzert, a climatologist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.

So when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recently said El Niño conditions were returning, some started dreaming of a season flush with water that could drag Southern California out of its drought.

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