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It’s 6:06 a.m., 53° and headed to 61°. Rainy, but supposedly the rain will be done doing its thing by 3 p.m. or so. Details are here.

Did you hear about the 4,000 new parking meters being installed across the city? In a neighborhood as parking-obsessed as this one, this is going to get rowdy.

In your precipitation news: We are wetter than our Gold Rush predecessors, says the Chron. It goes on to add that children are stomping in puddles, much as they have since the dawn of time. Or at least the dawn of puddles. And children.

Enjoy the rain while it lasts. It’s going to be sunny and 80° this weekend, says that rumor mill we call the weather report.

And, in your East Coast news, midtown Manhattan is cracking down on food trucks. I am mostly including this because it contains my favorite phrase of this morning’s news: “ragtag fleet of generic soft ice cream trucks.”

H.R. Smith has reported on tech and climate change for Grist, studied at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow, and is exceedingly fond of local politics.

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