Northern California may get a respite from wildfire season when rain and snow fall on tinder-dry trees and brush in coming days. The initial burst of precipitation will begin Tuesday into Wednesday, with the main event commencing this weekend, said Emily Heller, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Sacramento. “It is definitely going to help things out,” Heller said. “Whether we can say fire season is quote-unquote over, we will have to hear from the i-mets in the field, but it will definitely be helpful.” I-mets are incident meteorologists that accompany firefighting crews into burning forests. Fires in California have killed at least three people and scorched nearly 2.5 million acres (1 million hectares) through Oct. 15 and led to blackouts as utilities shut off electricity to prevent new blazes. The geographic span of the fires hasn’t yet topped the acreage burned during the same period last year, it’s […]