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Heavy rain forecast for today – Arrives as Snow

Update 2pm: Snow continues to come and go. Surface temperatures continue to hover just over freezing.

Update 1pm: Precipitation has changed from snow back to rain in many areas and surface temperatures stopped dropping at near 33.5°.

Paul Ingram - snowfall in pacific highlands 2015-12-27
Reader Paul Ingram sent this photo of the snow fall in the Pacific Highlands neighborhood.

Original Story: The Ferndale weather forecast called for about a half-inch of rain today, Sunday, December 27th. Beginning after 9am, the rains arrived and began to fall in earnest. At the same time, the temperature started falling too.

About 12:30pm, the temperature had fallen enough the rain became big flakes of snow falling in many areas around Ferndale. No accumulations to be hoped for without a big drop in temperature given the soggy result of a few hours of rain preceding the snow.

The weather station by the high school reported 36° at 9am and 34° at 12:30pm.

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