White Christmas
Will Colonial Pine Hills, SD have a white Christmas?
Colonial Pine Hills, 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.
Measured at Rapid City Wfo, 7 miles northeast of Colonial Pine Hills. That station is far enough from Colonial Pine Hills, or high or low enough, that this is its own record rather than a call for the town. 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 Colonial Pine Hills starts on this page on December 18.
White Christmas near Colonial Pine Hills
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