What’s the Chance of a White Christmas on the North Shore?
Midwest is in a snow drought; check out stats that show probability of snow on Christmas.
It’s a little too early to look at weather models to predict whether or not the Chicago area will see a white Christmas this year, said Ed Fenelon, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, Chicago region. However, historically, the Chicago region has only a 45 percent chance of seeing a postcard snowy Christmas, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). What makes a Christmas white? The National Climatic Data Center defines a White Christmas as one with an inch or more of snow on the ground at 6 a.m. The last white Christmas in our region was in 2010, when 2-4 inches fell on Christmas Eve into Christmas day. Last Christmas saw a high temperature of 45 degrees, a low of 29 degrees and no …
chris
8:22 am on Friday, December 7, 2012
The statements make no sense. There has never been an instance where over an inch of precipitation fell on Christmas in the Chicago region. The very next paragraph says the opposite: The snowiest Christmas was in 1950 when 5.1 inches of snow fell on Christmas day. more ›