5:45pm – Following the heavy rain, a beautiful rainbow (double for some) was created by the setting sun.
4:45pm -Ferndale just received nearly a tenth of an inch of rainfall during a squall that lasted only fifteen minutes. According to Puget Sound Energy, over 50,000 PSE customers are without power around Puget Sound. The closest outage to Ferndale is near Mount Vernon.
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Original story:
According to a Ferndale weather monitoring station (see graphic), it was shortly after noon when temperature and wind speeds both heading upwards on the graphs.
By then the day’s rainfall total had hit a third of an inch.
There was one wind gust recorded of over 60mph about 2:30pm.
The National Weather Service had issued a wind advisory yesterday and the Ferndale weather forecast says to expect another quarter inch of rain tonight.
While rains locally and in the mountains are expected to cause the Nooksack River level to rise quickly in the Ferndale area over the next 24 hours, no flooding is expected.