A blast of arctic air mixing with moisture off the Pacific Ocean created a perfect recipe for several people in the East Bay hills to capture what looked like a winter wonderland.
The snow began to fall just before 8 a.m. Thursday and didn’t stick long on the ground before melting away.
"It’s relatively rare," said Ben Garcia with the NWS. "It’s not like we don’t ever see it. But it’s probably more of a once a decade type thing that snow would actually stick up in the Oakland or Berkeley hills.""If it wasn’t cold, we’d be talking about widespread rain across the area," he said. "We fully expect up in the hills around the area to have fully stuck snow [Friday].
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