White Christmas
Will Forest Lake, IL have a white Christmas?
Forest Lake, Illinois had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 13 of the 25 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2022. A coin flip.
Measured at Mundelein 4wsw, 3 miles north of Forest Lake. 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 Forest Lake starts on this page on December 18.