White Christmas
Will West Des Moines, IA have a white Christmas?
West Des Moines, Iowa had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 13 of the last 30 Christmases (1996 to 2025). The last white Christmas there was in 2022. A coin flip.
Measured at Des Moines International Airport, 4 miles southeast of West Des Moines. 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 West Des Moines starts on this page on December 18.