Christmas morning on the North Olympic Peninsula was anything but white, with balmy temperatures making it seem more like spring than the opening salvo of winter.
Instead of snowdrifts and ice, those unwrapping presents and raiding stockings got a glimpse of sunlight peeking through rain clouds that meteorologists credit with keeping the weather warm.
So warm that on Sunday, Port Angeles came two degrees short of tying the record high for Christmas of 56 degrees set in 1980.
Port Townsend tried to tie its high of 60 degrees in 1980, but only mustered 55 degrees Sunday.
Along with the rain and warmer temperatures came warnings that four rivers on the North Olympic Peninsula could flood.
Still, Johnny Burg, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Seattle, said Clallam and Jefferson county rivers are not the likeliest candidates for flooding.
