Will We Have a White Christmas?

[mikegeukes]

Will We Have a White Christmas?
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/extrem.../christmas.html

DAILY SNOW COVER MAP

Source: NCDC and NOAA

Mike
http://mgweather.com

 

[Shane Adams]

No

 

[Robert Dewey]

This is the first year that I can remember that we actually had a few inches of snow on the ground for Thanksgiving... It certainly started early this year.

There's still plenty of time for things to melt off before Christmas and be a not-so-white Christmas.

 

[Jeff Lawson]

I have a 10" snowpack here at home, and with no decent warm-up on the horizon, I figure the likelihood of at least some snow being on the ground come Christmas is pretty high.

 

[Andrew Pritchard]

Already a good snowpack across a large section of the country, and some indications of a major system mid next week..

 

[Joel Wright]

We have about 6" on the ground now, so unless it warms up quite a bit in the next few weeks we should have one.

 

[mikegeukes]

I will say yes for a White Christmas for Grand Rapids, MI

Grand Rapids Michigan snowfall this season
33.0 inches of snow for the season thru 12/09
12.7 is the normal value thru 12/09
20.3 inches above normal for snow thru 12/09

8 inches of snow on the ground.

Mike
http://mgweather.com

 

[Anthony Silver]

By the way those maps are looking, I'd say the KC area has *some* hope, but nothing worth getting too excited over.

 

[Dan Robinson]

That second map shows the pretty distinct result of the Curse of the Warm Wedge on the western side of the Appalachians that I've been fighting this winter.

 

[Angie Norris]

I agree with Shane...won't happen :cry:
Angie

 

[Karen Politte]

I agree with Shane...won't happen :cry:
Angie

Not here anyhow. Move to Taos or something then you'd be in business.

KR

 

[Charles Kuster]

I would say yes for sure for Leadville. Then again we always have a white Christmas. Right now we have about 17" of snow on the ground, (above average) so this may be an extra white Christmas for us. :lol: What does everyone prefer, a white Christmas or a nonwhite Christmas? I would not know, because I have never had a nonwhite Christmas.

 

[Pat Lawrence]

Yep...time to plan a trip to Florida in the next couple of weeks

 

[Justin Turcotte]

There is a whopping TRACE of snow here in Grand Forks, ND which is 75 miles from the Canuck border. There was moderate rain here yesterday and grass is showing again. More chance for melting later Sunday when a trough swings through and the atmosphere mixes down once again. If not for the quarter inch of crust from a FZRA/PL event a week and a half ago the ground would be bare. No significant systems advertised in the GFS though any Clipper system bewteen now and the holiday could provide the one inch threshold.

 

[Caleb Lawrence]

I wonder what the chances of it snowing Xmas eve/Xmas morning in the Toronto area. I have a friend there, and she's obsessed with having a white Xmas. Surely the area could get some lake effect snow going, eh? Still think the chances of it are slim, though. Just doesn't seem probable.