National Public Radio: California, which has been experiencing its worst drought on record, is welcoming some heavy rainfall this weekend, if it signals a wholesale quenching of dried up streams and farm fields. says: "Until Saturday, the San Francisco Bay Area had gotten only 3 inches of rain this season; it normally would have received 14.5 inches of rain at this point. But rain was falling at the rate of a half-inch per hour Saturday in some parts of the area 4 inches in Sonoma County and as much as 3 inches...