What Are The Odds Of A White Christmas? Forecast Offers Some Hope

BOSTON — You might think it's too early to be predicting whether we'll have a White Christmas, but AccuWeather sure doesn't.

The short of it is, it's not likely southern New England has a White Christmas. It's not hopeless — in fact it's close to the same possibility as usual, about a 25-50 percent chance — but it's not expected, either.

"We're actually kind of in that normal zone for [the Northeast] just in case we get one of these sneaky, late-December systems coming in there," AccuWeather senior meteorologist Paul Pastelok said. "But I do feel like the probability of a white Christmas in Boston, New York, D.C. and Baltimore is slightly lower."

If you really want a better shot at a White Christmas, rent a place in the Berkshires. Higher elevations have the best chance for holiday snow.

AccuWeather's forecast us due to La Niña, a weather system that boosts the odds of a White Christmas for the interior part of New England.

Technically a "White Christmas" is defined as having at least 1 inch of snow on the ground Christmas morning. That hasn't been the case in Boston since 2009, which was the second year of back-to-back White Christmases.

See the full AccuWeather story here