Occasional blocks in Frozen Ocean biomes rain instead of snow. Ice does not form, nor do snow layers form on solid blocks placed there.
This is unrelated to Deep Frozen Ocean.
Has been reproduced on multiple seeds. The following is a quick way to reproduce:
Create world with seed: -4610570334085788167, go to -1164, 64, -3982, set weather to rain.
Expected: Snow in all blocks marked as Frozen Ocean biome.
Observed; Snow in almost all blocks marked as Frozen Ocean biome, and some blocks show rain.
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The lack of ice indicates that it isn't causing ice to freeze in that block. The temperature in some blocks in the frozen ocean biome is not correctly interpreted by the weather visuals or the freezing/snow layer random ticks. Placing ice there does not cause it to start snowing. That location appears to have the wrong temperature returned when the code requests it.
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Can confirm this behavior. Seems like the biome decides whether or not it will rain or snow dependant on if there is ice on the surface of the water. (see image)
This issue could possibly duplicate or at least be related to MC-236652, which has been marked as fixed.