| Slim chances for white Christmas |
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By: Bobby Boyd, NWS Meteorologist
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Posted: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 11:44 am
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With only a 5-10 percent chance historically of snow on the big day, Middle Tennessee will likely not see a white Christmas.
Snow has been measured in Nashville since the winter of 1884 and 1885 when the Army Signal Corps began taking snow measurements in addition to temperature.
Since that time snow has fallen 23 times on Christmas Day and only nine times with measurable amounts. The last time that snow fell on Christmas Day in Nashville was in 2002 when a trace was observed. The last time measurable snow fell on Christmas Day was in 1993 when 0.3 inch was measured.
Measurable snow also fell on Christmas Day in 1992 when 0.3 inch was also measured.
1992 and 1993 are the only consecutive Christmases on record with measurable snowfall.
The largest snow to fall on Christmas Day fell in 1969 when 2.7 inches was measured.
The warmest Christmas on record was in 1982 when the high was 72 degrees and the low was 64 degrees and the coldest Christmas on record was one year later in 1983 when the high for Christmas Day was 15 degrees and the low was a frigid -5 degrees. There was also a trace of snow on Christmas Day in 1983.
The wettest Christmas on record was in 1987 when 2.37 inches of rain fell.
A tornado cut a million dollar damage path Christmas 1964 from Whispering Hills section of Nashville to near Una. |
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