Since 1882, snowfall in Denver on Dec. 25 has brought a white Christmas just 19 times.
It was a white Christmas as plows cleared the roads along 13th Avenue in Denver on Dec. 25, 2014. (Photo By Brent Lewis/The Denver Post)
As earlier today, itap beginning to look a lot like (a snowless) Christmas for the Denver area this year.
It seems warming temperatures and a break in storm fronts could leave the Front Range high and dry for the holiday. Even still, the National Weather Service in Boulder has mined hundreds of years of weather records to determine the .
According to records beginning in 1900, when snow depth measurements began, there is a 38 percent chance of having at least one inch of snow on the ground on Christmas Day.
But if you’re a white Christmas purist, and having a white Christmas means snow actually falling on Christmas Day, the odds drop to 14 percent. It has snowed on only 19 Christmas Days since 1882, when snowfall measurements began.
If you recall, last year was one of those 19 times. Snow began falling late in the afternoon on Christmas 2014 and continued through the night. By midnight, 3.4 inches had officially been recorded at Denver International Airport — the third-most snow to fall on the day since 1882.
Denver has yet to see a major snowstorm on Christmas Day, according to NWS records. The most snow to fall on Dec. 25 was 7.8 inches in 2007. The most snow to be on the ground on Christmas Day, however, came the day before when 24 inches fell during the .
And for those bemoaning the thought of snow on Christmas, remember back to 2005 when temperatures reached a balmy 69 degrees.
