Days with snow cover: 025
Days with complete snow cover: 014
Total snowfall: 012 centimeters
Maximum snow depth: 03 centimetersGreatest snow event: 02.5 centimeters
Maximum low temperature: 07º Fahrenheit (about -14º Celsius)
It looks like we'll have a "white" Christmas...kinda. Apparently the government defines a white Christmas as having at least 1 inch of snow on the ground. We won't have that, but we will have a white Christmas by the measure I've used since I've been keeping track. We HAD exactly two centimeters yesterday morning. Some of that melted during the day yesterday, but I doubt we'll lose any more before Saturday.
This has been the coldest December I've experienced out of 7 total in New York. We have had three days with high temperatures above freezing, and two of those were in the low 30s. The rest have been in the 20s or 10s. The temperatures have been great, but we haven't had any snow (less than five inches this season) to speak of.
The one huge positive about this Christmas is that it looks like it will remain cold through Christmas. Every year that I've been here we have had a significant warm spell just before or on Christmas day. We have had 11 consecutive days below freezing through the 23rd, and we're forecast to have at least another four or five. It's good stuff.
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