Parts of California are getting a White Christmas after all, with snowfall pounding mountains across the state.
should see scattered showers, with heavy snow in the San Bernardino and Riverside County mountains, with precipitation possibly going into Thursday.
The National Weather Service says the Seattle-Tacoma area is likely to see up to 3 inches of snow over the weekend. By early next week, the Seattle area will dip as low as 18 degrees Fahrenheit , the lowest in several years. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, will drop to -5 F by Wednesday and Portland will drop to the low 20s and high teens.
Recent forecasts show at least an inch of snow is likely to fall Sunday in the Seattle and Portland regions, which don’t typically see snow. In Arizona, a winter weather advisory remained in effect Saturday through the weekend in the upper elevations of the mountains north of the Grand Canyon near the Colorado line. But the wet weather that dumped record-breaking rain on Phoenix and Flagstaff on Friday was moving out of the area.
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