White Christmas
Will Lake Bluff, IL have a white Christmas?
Lake Bluff, Illinois had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 10 of the 22 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2017. A coin flip.
Measured at Chicago Botanic Garden, 10 miles south of Lake Bluff. 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 Lake Bluff starts on this page on December 18.