White Christmas
Will Wood River, IL have a white Christmas?
Wood River, Illinois had snow on the ground on Christmas morning in 0 of the 22 Christmases measured from 1996 to 2025. None of them was white. Almost never.
Measured at Alton - Melvin Price L&D, 3 miles west of Wood River. 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 Wood River starts on this page on December 18.