White Christmas
Will Oakes, ND have a white Christmas?
Oakes, North Dakota had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 13 of the 22 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2016.
Measured at Columbia 8 N, 30 miles south of Oakes. That station is far enough from Oakes, 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 Oakes starts on this page on December 18.