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Above is the latest official white Christmas forecast for 2013 from The Weather Channel. We will continue to fine tune and update this forecast leading up to Dec. 25, so bookmark this link and check back frequently. This is not a map of "historic probability" or "climatology", but our best forecast at which areas may have a white Christmas.
In the world of meteorological statistics, a white Christmas is defined as having at least one inch of snow on the ground on Christmas morning. No snow has to fall on Christmas Day for this, of course.
Therefore, our forecast takes into account future snowfall and the potential for warm or cold spells to either melt or maintain the snow cover through Christmas morning.
If you'd like a close-up on your region, you can use the links below to jump to those pages

Snow Cover Last Five Years on Christmas Day

If you think you have "no shot" this year, consider we've had some rather strange Christmas morning snow covers in recent years:
2012:  Parts of the Oklahoma, north Texas and Arkansas saw snow from Winter Storm Euclid on Christmas Day. Record snowiest Christmas Day in Little Rock, Ark. (9 inches). First accumulating Christmas Day snowfall in Dallas/Ft. Worth (0.4 inches) since 1975. Second year in a row with a white Christmas in Amarillo, Texas.
2011:  Least snowy start to season in Buffalo (3 inches) and Rochester (2.5 inches), N.Y.  Brown ground there.
2009:  Oklahoma City record 24-hour snow (14.1 inches) Christmas Eve.  First snow on the ground on Christmas Day in Dallas-Ft. Worth since 1975.
2008:  Record Christmas Day snow cover in Portland, Ore.  Snow had fallen there for 11 straight days, including Christmas Day.
2004:  Snowstorm of record for Corpus Christi, Texas (4.4 inches).  First measurable snowfall in Brownsville, Texas (1.5 inches) since 1895. A startling 13 inches fell in Brazoria.