Gwen Stefani pre-taped her performance for the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She sang White Christmas for a crowd of ...

A few parts of the country may get a white Christmas in 2024, but the majority will not. And in the future, shifts in weather patterns driven by global warming may make them even less likely.

Plains. A few white Christmas wishes came true in the Plains last year. Pierre, South Dakota, had 2 inches on the ground, and 4.2 inches of snow fell during the day.

If you want a white Christmas in a city setting, your best bets historically are Minneapolis – about a 70% chance — or Burlington, Vermont — around a 60 to 65% chance.

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.

Plains. A few white Christmas wishes came true in the Plains last year. Pierre, South Dakota, had 2 inches on the ground, and 4.2 inches of snow fell during the day.

During D.C.’s last white Christmas in 2009, 7 inches of snow lay on the ground at Reagan National Airport on Christmas morning. The deep snow came from a massive snowstorm, dubbed Snowpocalypse ...

What about a "real" white Christmas? On Dec. 23, 1989, a storm system blew through the Florida peninsula. According to an archived article from News4Jax, as temperatures fell to 26 degrees, "the ...

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 ...

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.