A White Christmas in Seattle

Dec 25, 2007 at 3:12 PM
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Since 1891, it has only snowed five times on Christmas in Seattle.
The last Christmas Day snow was in 1990 (those here will remember that infamous arctic outbreak). Most of the snow fell earlier, but we did manage 0.8" on Christmas. Before that, we had an inch in 1965, a dusting in 1944 and 1915, and about 2" in 1909.
For more recent events: The big snowstorm in 1996 didn't start until Dec.26, and we did manage 2" on Christmas Eve in 1998 but it melted before Santa could arrive.

I just got back from what could only be described as a snow globe run. It's not sticking much, but the falling flakes are beautiful.