After a string of dry winter months, late March brought stormy weather that tripled quarterly rainfall totals in some parts of the Bay Area, aided further by bouts of light rain throughout April.

Still, meteorologists had hoped for more precipitation out of the spring after a promising start to the fall. The South Bay remains particularly parched compared to previous weather seasons.

“We went from feast to famine right around the start of the new year for this water year alone,” said Drew Peterson, a National Weather Service meteorologist.

Before Saturday’s early morning storm, San Jose had seen 57% of the rainfall between Oct. 1 and now that it does in the same period in an average year, according to weather records.

But that’s an improvement from last year, when the city had seen just 43% of typical rainfall between Oct. 1 and April 15. And on the bright side, other parts of the Bay Area have seen far more rain this season than they did a year ago.

Oakland has recorded 93% of its typical rainfall since Oct. 1 and the San Francisco Airport area has seen 94% over the same stretch. On April 15 last year, the two weather stations respectively recorded 44% and 39% of normal rainfall.

Time will tell whether April can be a “Miracle March” month that replenishes state reservoirs with heavy rains during drought years. But it looks unlikely.

“As we go forward, it’s much rarer to see rain systems that would make a dent in the drought,” Peterson said. “We would need a strong atmospheric river to get back to something close to normal for this water year.”