White Christmas
Will Penn Valley, CA have a white Christmas?
Penn Valley, California had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 0 of the 28 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. None of them was white.
Measured at Harry L Englebright Dam, 5 miles northwest of Penn Valley. That station is far enough from Penn Valley, 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 Penn Valley starts on this page on December 18.