White Christmas
Will Tierra Amarilla, NM have a white Christmas?
Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 17 of the 24 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. The last white Christmas there was in 2020.
Measured at Dulce, 30 miles northwest of Tierra Amarilla. That station is far enough from Tierra Amarilla, 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 Tierra Amarilla starts on this page on December 18.