At least 1 inch of snow needs to be on the ground on December 25 in order for it to count as a white Christmas. It doesn’t necessarily have to fall the same day.

New York City woke up to its first white Christmas in 15 years. But only a few areas of the U.S. are likely to see snow in the weather forecast for Christmas 2024.

Christmas 2022, 53% of the Lower 48 experienced a white Christmas, the highest percentage since 2009. Much of the West, Midwest and interior Northeast were covered in snow.

Last year, just 17.6% of the Lower 48 experienced a white Christmas. This was the lowest percentage since records began in 2003.Outside of the West's higher elevations, there was an area of snow ...

A white Christmas also is expected for some states with snow already on the ground, though they aren't expecting to see fresh snowfall, AccuWeather long-range expert Paul Pastelok told Newsweek.

With flakes possibly late on Christmas Eve, New Yorkers have at least a chance of escaping the long white Christmas drought. The last time New York City measured a snow depth or new snowfall of at ...

The glory years for Christmas snow in D.C. were in the 1960s. White Christmases occurred in 1960, 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1969. Christmas Day snowstorms occurred in in 1962 and 1969.

The last time New York City saw a White Christmas was in 2009 and, historically, there is only an 11% chance in the city. See our full winter snow outlook for the season here, and stick with the ...

This was the first white Christmas in Jacksonville's history, the snow lasting in some areas for three or four days."Because the snow was still on the ground Christmas morning, this qualifies as a ...

The majority of snowy Christmases, therefore, have been the result of snowstorms taking place in the days before. Meteorologists define a white Christmas as when there is at least one inch of snow ...