White Christmas only in your dreams

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If you’re looking for a white Christmas this year, you’ll have to dream, because the temperatures and precipitation forecasts aren’t co-operating.  

From 1997 to 2023 Windsor-Essex had a white Christmas 48 per cent of the time, said Trudy Kidd, a meteorologist with Environment Canada. 

A white Christmas is defined as two centimetres of snow on the ground at 7 a.m. Christmas morning, she said. 

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And since there was no snow on the ground on Friday morning, we need two centimetres of snow before Christmas Day and it has to stay. The region was expected to get a light dusting of snow Friday night. 

And we may get a light dusting of snow today (Monday), but the temperature will hover around 2 C all day and overnight, so it’s likely to melt or be closer to rain.  

On Tuesday there is about 40 per cent of precipitation, but the temperature could hit 3 C, with mixed precipitation that Kidd says will likely be closer to rain. And on Wednesday, Christmas Day, it will be about 0 C by the time the kids wake up, and about 3C in the afternoon, with no precipitation in the forecast.

“I think chances are we’ll see precipitation in Windsor on Dec 23 and Dec 24,” said Kidd. “That’s something I’ve seen the model guidance stick to, but it’s just a matter of it hanging around.  

“So I would say I don’t want people to get their hopes up for most people. 

“So keep expectations low and then you can only be only have your expectations met or exceeded.” 

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