Every year, people hope and wait for snow to fall on Christmas. It puts people in a festive winter spirit, shown by the beloved Christmas song, “White Christmas”. White Christmas is currently one of the most recorded Christmas songs with over 500 songs being released. However, almost every year people get disappointed by the lack of snow. 

    According to the National Weather Service, since 1948 Columbus has experienced snow only 17 times or about 25% of the time. The last time that Columbus had at least 1 inch of snow on December 25th was in 1995. Although there is already a low chance that it will snow on Christmas, there is a possibility that because of climate change winters are becoming warmer, causing the dream of a white Christmas to get even more unrealistic.

    According to the group Climate Central, since 1970 winter has warmed 1 degree in the Pacific Northwest, parts of the Midwest have warmed 5 degrees, and areas of New York, Vermont, and northern Minnesota have warmed about 7 degrees. “What we are experiencing, as whole, in aggregate, is what we expect from climate change,” climatologist and PhD Heidi Roop says. “That volatility, that unpredictability, that weirdness, if you will, is climate change,”

    As of right now on the apple weather app, it does not appear that for Monday, December 25th, there is any chance for snow. And with what we have seen in the trends of snow on Christmas throughout the years and an increasing level of global warming, it seems like it would take a Christmas miracle to snow on December 25th this year.