Snow chance: Using data collected over the past 30 years, here are the statistical probablities of having a white Christmas in various parts of the United States.

Will Bing Crosby be singing the blues this year?

He, along with anyone else hoping for a White Christmas, might want to check out this probability map for the chances of having a white Christmas in the United States. As you can see, Minnesota and the upper Midwest are among the prime locations to have a white Christmas.

U.S. weather records averaged over a 30-year period show that only five places with long-term weather records are practically guaranteed to have a white Christmas. They are Marquette and Sault Ste Marie in Michigan, Hibbing and International Falls in Minnesota, and Stampede Pass in Washington.

As the map shows, wide areas of northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, much of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and western mountains including the Cascades of Washington and Oregon, California's Sierra, and the Rockies from Montana and Idaho south into southern Colorado have a better than 90% chance of snow on the ground at Christmas.

Of course, from year to year the weather varies. There’s never a guarantee of a having a white Christmas. How important is it to you to have a snow during the holidays?

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