White Christmas
Will Box Elder, SD have a white Christmas?
Box Elder, South Dakota had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 11 of the last 30 Christmases (1996 to 2025). The last white Christmas there was in 2023. A coin flip.
Measured at Rapid City Wfo, 8 miles west of Box Elder. A white Christmas is an inch or more of snow on the ground at the Christmas morning reading, the line NOAA uses, counted from the station's own daily record.
The forecast for Christmas morning in Box Elder starts on this page on December 18.