Americans dreaming of a white Christmas in 2024 may have the best chance of seeing one in the north-central, northeast, and northwest corners of the country, according to the National Weather Service (NWS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center.
An eight-to-14-day forecast issued on Dec. 16 predicted that while temperatures will be above average for most of the country from Dec. 24 to Dec. 30, so will the chance of precipitation due to more atmospheric river activity.
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center announced a 40 to 60 percent chance of “heavy precipitation and high elevation snow” in parts of northern California and the Pacific Northwest on Dec. 24, 26, and 27. That includes the Sierra Nevada mountains and portions of western Oregon and Washington....
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