Christmas and snow just seem to be like peas and carrots, as Forrest Gump would say. But how frequently does it actually happen in Northern Nevada?
"It has snowed 7 times on Christmas Day, with a dozen times there's been snow on the ground on Christmas Day out of 120 years,"Â said Shane Snyder, Meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Reno.
That means about 10% of Christmases here are white.
In 1910, one inch of snow fell. In 1921, five inches of snow fell. In 1965 it was 2.7 inches. Christmas Day 1968, we saw almost three inches of the white stuff. In 1972, 14.9 inches of snow fell. More recently, 2 inches fell, and 1.7 in 2012.
These readings are taken at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport.
