{"id":460506,"date":"2025-12-20T18:03:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460506\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:03:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T18:03:44","slug":"will-nyc-have-a-white-christmas-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460506\/","title":{"rendered":"Will NYC have a white Christmas this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Yorkers are dreaming of a white Christmas \u2014 which has happened only six times in the last 156 years.<\/p>\n<p>And, \u201cunfortunately, this year, it\u2019s looking like we\u2019ll keep on dreaming,\u201d AccuWeather.com senior meteorologist John Feerick told The Post Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>There is a possibility New York and New Jersey could get a light snowfall early this week, but the holiday will be dry and pleasant, with temps in the mid-40s.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37982038\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/man-shovels-sidewalk-tuesday-december-95827330.jpg\" alt=\"A man shovels snow from a sidewalk in New York City in Dec 2024\" class=\"wp-image-37982038\"  \/>Last year, there was an inch of snow on the ground in Central Park on Christmas Day. Michael Nagle<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a chance for a little bit of snow, later Monday night, Tuesday morning. But even if we were to get a small accumulation out of that, it would melt by the time we got to Christmas,\u201d Feerick said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, there was an inch of snow on the ground in Central Park on Christmas Day, which was the first white Christmas since 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Snowfall on Christmas Day is a rare occurrence in the Big Apple.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last time there was actually accumulating snow on Christmas Day in New York City was 2002 when 5 inches of snow fell in Central Park,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly six times in the last 156 years has New York City had over an inch of snowfall on Christmas Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The most snow to fall on Christmas Day in Central Park was 7 inches in 1909.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Yorkers are dreaming of a white Christmas \u2014 which has happened only six times in the last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,18061,44679,5249,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,71178,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-460506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-central-park","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-snow","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115753216644756309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}