Historically there’s less than a 50-percent chance of a white Christmas in the Clinton area.
Clinton area weather observer Jim Blaess says there has been a white Christmas in six of the last seven years.
At least one inch of snow on the ground is the standard for a white Christmas.
Over the past seven years, the only year there wasn’t enough snow on the ground was 2011.
But, he says overall since records started in 1920 – the Clinton area has had a white Christmas 43 times and did not 51 times or about 41-percent of the time you could call it a White Christmas in the Clinton area.
Blaess also noted that there are ‘streaks’ within the history. He said one example is that from 1952 to 1959 there were no white Christmas days but starting in the 1960’s there were several in a row.
