Saskatchewan “Dreaming of a White Christmas”

Also, Windsor has only had about one all-freezing day – when the temperatures stay below freezing from morning until night.

On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, the snow level will be from surface level to 500 feet.

Officially, the National Weather Service says a location has a white Christmas when they have at least one inch of measurable snow on the ground on Christmas Day.

“Let’s face it, we are the second coldest country in the world, and the snowiest”, Phillips said.

But while it’s unusual to be having 60- and 70-degree days in mid-December, it’s not all that common for the Charleston area to have snow on Christmas, either.

SoCal could see a cold and rainy couple of days on Christmas and Christmas Eve, according to meteorologist Scott Sukup with the National Weather Service. In the mountains, that probability goes up to six out of every 10 years. Sometimes I even dare to take a look at the iPhone weather app forecast – mainly to see how wrong the Apple weather algorithm will be. The record for warmest December 25 in Little Rock was set in 1942 with a high of 73 degrees, Lesko said.

Lesko said this year’s El Nino, which is a large area of warm water circulating in the Pacific Ocean near the equator, is responsible for the above average precipitation and warmth Arkansas has experienced this year.

Despite his dream to waking up to snow on Christmas, Lipe agrees the warm temperatures seem pretty comfortable.

But if you like warmer temperatures you’re not alone.

Warmth will be the big story leading up to Christmas across central and eastern Canada as parts of southern Ontario, Quebec and the Maritimes will likely see record high temperatures on the 23rd and 24th.

“I’m sure it has some sort of impact, but how it effects us here is yet to be known”, Wolfe said. As rain moves in, flooding will become a concern, he said. “Not too good for ski resorts”. “It decreases when we head toward Milwaukee, about a 40 to 50-percent chance from Milwaukee south to Racine/Kenosha for a white Christmas”.