White Christmas
Will Ruidoso Downs, NM have a white Christmas?
Ruidoso Downs, New Mexico had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 5 of the 22 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2011.
Measured at Picacho, 27 miles east of Ruidoso Downs. That station is far enough from Ruidoso Downs, 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 Ruidoso Downs starts on this page on December 18.