It is a strange situation in some ways. Many of us are not huge snow fans, but we would still like to see a white Christmas. We want the snow to show up on Christmas eve, then disappear a day or so later. And if it can avoid falling on walkways and driveways, that would be even better.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to work that way.
An official white Christmas is two centimeters of snow on the ground at 7:00 AM Christmas morning. I’m not sure where this longing for a white Christmas came from. Maybe we can blame Irving Berlin, and in turn Bing Crosby, but for some reason most of us would like to see that dusting of white on the ground for Christmas.
In our area, we have a roughly fifty percent chance of seeing snow on the ground for Christmas. We generally don’t see a lot, but it can happen.
This year? I wouldn’t bet on it.
Sure we got snow on the ground right now. It looks lovely, but checking the extended forecast, I don’t think it will be sticking around.
That extended forecast is calling for temperatures to be generally above freezing for most of the next week and even some showers in the forecast for a couple days. Yes, long range forecasting, which around here can mean more than an hour in the future, can change at a moments notice. So we could see a white Christmas. But it doesn’t look likely.
