Here’s the text of an NOAA site that lists the probability of snow on Christmas day for many US cities.
Cities with 100% chance are Marquette MI, Sault Ste Marie MI, Hibbing MN, International Falls MN, Stampede Pass WA.
Here’s the text of an NOAA site that lists the probability of snow on Christmas day for many US cities.
Cities with 100% chance are Marquette MI, Sault Ste Marie MI, Hibbing MN, International Falls MN, Stampede Pass WA.
Spent nearly every christmas of my life here in Southern Ontario. Offhand I’d say about a 40% white rate. More often than not the neverending blanket of whiteness doesn’t get here until January.
Doesn’t all that snow mess with the family bbq christmas lunch?
Aussie here, so no snow at Christmas. In fact, of the five times I’ve seen snow in my whole life, none of them were remotely close to Christmas time.
I spent many many years in Colorado, I’ve seen my share of white Halloweens, Thanksgivings, and Mother’s Days.
And yes, there have been several white Christmases, including the notorious Blizzard of '82.
I like being in Florida now.
Indeed, you Aussies should really mend that earth tilt problem you all have down there. Between your cockamamie counter-clockwise water drainage and your harebrained hot winters, well, it’s simply not an environ fit for civilized human habitation.
Growing up in SE Pennsylvania, I can remember some white Christmases, but most weren’t. I’ve found it’s helpful to tell people that I’m “from Pennsylvania, but not snowbelt Pennsylvania”.
Here? Yeah, mostly. This year, however, absolutely nothing would surprise me. Lately it seems we don’t have a climate any more. We just have weather.
Whoops! Hey, in my defence, it’s much easier to pluralize ‘solstice’.
(wondering if that’ll sound plausible - heehee)
It really doesn’t feel like christmas 'til it snows! You’re welcome for a visit to the great white north anytime, sampiro!
I’d rather have a white christmas than brown or green. We have had both but I much prefer SNOW!!!
I’ve had a white Halloween once. It was oh, 1993, IIRC. And not just a little dusting, either-we’re talking big ass snow drifts.
Snow on Christmas here in Western PA seems to be hit or miss.
In Jersey I have seen plenty of white Christmases and a couple of white Thanksgivings. I never saw a white Halloween until I started going to school in Pittsburgh. As much as I enjoy snow, I still do not think that it belongs in October.
White Halloweens were pretty common when I was growing up. I remember many years being miffed because my Mom made me wear my winter coat and boots over my costume when I went out trick-or-treating.
No, we like it just the way it is. Christmas in cold weather just seems incredibly unnatural.
On that definition, I have at least one. A few years ago, one of my sons was visiting his parents in Ohio or the first time, withe a friend of his from high school and uni. We went to church on Christmas Eve evening, and the snow started falling just as we were leaving church, Definitely a white Christmas.
When I was a growing up in Milwaukee, I remember it once snowed 9 inches on December 24. I was born on December 25, two days after an 11-inch snowfall. On December 22, 2000, the snow depth in Milwaukee was measured at 32 inches.
Myth.
That’s right. It’s not really Christmas unless you’re sweltering in 100F degree heat wearing shorts and a singlet, singing songs about sleighbells in a house decorated with fake snowmen and artificial frost on the windows.
Yeah- how can you possibly have a Christmas without it being stinking hot and flies all over the place?
I have seen snow on hill tops in Scotland…tha is as close as I have come to the real article.
Probably a quarter to a third of them in my childhood, a third in my young adulthood. Now I live where it rarely snows, so none since I came to my part of Oregon.
Never seen a white Christmas, but I’m a native Floridian.
The Weather Channel posts a White Christmas map of the United States.