Historical Probability of a White Xmas

[highpeaksdrifter]

 

[bvibert]

Bah Humbug!

 

[AdironRider]

Thats bull. I live in seacoast NH and it says I have a 50-75% chance. I can remember like 4 in my 22 years of life.

 

[SnowRider]

cant be true...i live in central MA and I really cant rmember any white christmas. If there was snow it wasnt amountable.

 

[loafer89]

Christmas 1998 was a white one for NYC, I remember about 3" on the ground X-mas eve.

In 1989 and 2005 we had a white Thanksgiving. The 1989 storm turned into a monster south of Long Island and while we only got 4" of snow in Bayside, my friend in Dix Hills (Suffolk county) got 17".

 

[Zand]

cant be true...i live in central MA and I really cant rmember any white christmas. If there was snow it wasnt amountable.

Where have you been? We just had a White Christmas last year. And then there was that big Christmas Blizzard that couldn't have been anymore than 3 or 4 years ago. That's just since 2002, I'm sure there have been more than that...

 

[thebigo]

How do they define a white christmas?

Snow on the ground or actual snowfall on christmas day.

If it is snow on the ground, I believe 50 - 75% for the NH seacoast.

 

[Jean-Pierre Skier]

This would be the first Christmas without snow on the ground for South West New Hampshire since Christmas 2001, if I recall correctly.

 

[klrskiah]

cant be true...i live in central MA and I really cant rmember any white christmas. If there was snow it wasnt amountable.

I bet this data goes back way before me. It would be interesting to see how much of a decline there has been in say the last 20 years or so

 

[SnowRider]

Where have you been? We just had a White Christmas last year. And then there was that big Christmas Blizzard that couldn't have been anymore than 3 or 4 years ago. That's just since 2002, I'm sure there have been more than that...

Last year? How much was there?

 

[Brettski]

How about 0%