White Christmas
Will East Rockaway, NY have a white Christmas?
East Rockaway, New York had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 2 of the last 30 Christmases (1996 to 2025). The last white Christmas there was in 2009. Rarely.
Measured at Jfk International Airport, 5 miles west of East Rockaway. 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 East Rockaway starts on this page on December 18.