PEORIA (25News Now) – A White Christmas certainly adds to the excitement of the holiday season, but they’re coming few and far between.
Thanks to climate change, our winters, especially December, are warmer than normal, resulting in temperatures being too warm for snow. Over the past 25 years, our average high on Christmas was 38 degrees.
But over the past 10 years, it’s been warmer when the average high on Christmas was 41 degrees, with an all-time Christmas record high of 63 in 2019.
We define a white Christmas as an inch or more of snow on the ground Christmas morning.
Over the past 25 years, we’ve had seven White Christmases, which is a 30% average. However, over the last decade, we’ve had only two White Christmases, which is a 20% average. The last was an inch in 2022. Snow on Christmas Day is even more of a rare event.
No matter what happens the rest of this winter, count on the team of five, the 25 News First Alert Weather Team. We won’t shovel your snow, but we’ll tell you when you’ll have to because when we know, you’ll know.
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