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WEST GREENWICH, R.I. -- If you thought it was extra cold and wet on Thursday for this time of year, you were right.

Snow arrived in northern Rhode Island Thursday afternoon and more flakes made an appearance Friday morning -- in a month that ordinarily gets just one-tenth of an inch of snow, according to the National Weather Service.

An observer for the National Weather Service called Friday to report flakes falling in West Greenwich shortly before 7 a.m., according to meteorologist Jeremiah Pyle. Not enough has fallen for an official measurement.

And Thursday afternoon, a state police lieutenant saw snowflakes falling at his Chepachet home around 3:30 p.m. They didn't stick, Lt. Eric LaRiviere said. Later, as he patrolled the state on the overnight shift, from 8 p.m. Thursday to 8 a.m. Friday, he said slush was hitting the windshield in Scituate and other parts north. Further south, just rain fell.

As for the cold Thursday, the National Weather Service reports a dubious distinction for Thursday. When the high temperature hit 44 degrees, that set a record at a time of year when the average high temperatures are in the low 60s, Pyle said. The lowest high temperature on the books for Oct. 15 was 50 degrees -- set back in 1937, Pyle said.

The heavy rain should quit early Friday and give way to drizzly, cloudy weather, Pyle said. Saturday should be the driest day of the weekend.

But another coastal storm is expected to head our way Saturday night and into Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. That should bring heavy rain, but it's unlikely to bring snow to Rhode Island, Pyle said. The temperatures aren't expected to be low enough for snow, he said.

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