Dreaming of a White Christmas in Middle Tennessee? Keep Dreaming

NASHVILLE, TN — Dropping the needle on your Bing Crosby record and dreaming of a White Christmas? If you really want to see snow, you'd be better off dropping some money on a plane ticket.

Statistically, Nashville has a 19 percent chance of seeing snow on Christmas in any given year, according to the National Weather Service, and an 8 percent chance of measurable snowfall of a tenth of an inch or greater. However, if that given year is this year, the chances are 0 percent.

The current forecast for Christmas calls for a high of 64, roughly twice the temperature needed for snowfall, which is too bad, because there will be moisture about, with a 30 percent chance of rain.

Snowfall records have been kept for Nashville since the winter of 1884-85 and snow has fallen 24 times in Nashville on Christmas since then. Only 10 times has the snow qualified as measurable. Four other times, snow which fell on earlier days was still on the ground on Christmas Day.

Nashville's last White Christmas was 2010 when 1.1 inches fell. The greatest Christmas snowfall was 2.7 inches in 1969.

Image via National Weather Service.