White Christmas
Will Lake City, CO have a white Christmas?
Lake City, Colorado had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 17 of the 21 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2023.
Measured at Ouray #2, 19 miles west of Lake City. That station is far enough from Lake City, 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 Lake City starts on this page on December 18.