Lowland Whatcom sees a few snowflakes on the first day of winter. Here's where it's falling The Bellingham Herald 12/22/2020 Robert Mittendorf, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.) Dec. 21—Snow was falling in lowland Whatcom County on the first day of winter, but meteorologists said that no accumulation was likely around Bellingham. Even so, several inches of snow covered areas north of Bellingham, and snowplows were clearing Interstate 5 from Bellingham north to the U.S.-Canada border. "Officially snowing in Whatcom County," Randy Small of Lynden tweeted at 11 a.m. Monday, Dec. 21, sharing video from followers in Point Roberts and Lynden. Small, who manages the Whatcom County Weather page on Facebook, tweeted that he also saw large snowflakes mixed with rain on Yew Street Road in Bellingham about 10 a.m.