White Christmas
Will New Orleans, LA have a white Christmas?
New Orleans, Louisiana had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 0 of the 25 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. None of them was white.
Measured at Columbia, 91 miles north of New Orleans. That station is far enough from New Orleans, 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 New Orleans starts on this page on December 18.