White Christmas
Will Sterling, IL have a white Christmas?
Sterling, Illinois had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 6 of the 22 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2022. Now and then.
Measured at Dixon Wwtp, 10 miles east of Sterling. 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 Sterling starts on this page on December 18.