White Christmas
Will Columbus, NM have a white Christmas?
Columbus, New Mexico had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 0 of the 24 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. None of them was white.
Measured at Santa Teresa Airport, 55 miles east of Columbus. That station is far enough from Columbus, 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 Columbus starts on this page on December 18.