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California Forecast

Weather won’t cause any problems for any of the metro areas in California Christmas Day, but some light snow may fall across portions of the Sierra-Nevadas on Christmas morning around the Lake Tahoe area, one of the few places in the country that may be able to wake up Christmas morning to some fresh snow. But, the afternoon and evening hours are looking dry all across the Golden State. While temperatures will be close to seasonable levels in the Bay Area, the central valleys and southern California, you’ll need the heavy coats up in the mountains, where temperatures will be more than 20 degrees below average in the Sierras, with highs only in the 20s. The mercury may drop below zero in a few places Christmas night.

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Pacific Northwest Forecast

It looks to be a seasonable Christmas Day for the major metro areas of Portland, Oregon, as well as Tacoma and Seattle, Washington, with highs in the low to mid 40s. But you’ll need to bundle up if you’re spending Christmas in the higher country, where temperatures will only be in the teens and 20s in the mountains, which is about 10 degrees below average for late December. Otherwise, it’s shaping up to be a dry Christmas Day across the Pacific Northwest.

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Great Lakes Forecast

The Ohio Valley will remain very mild with highs in the 50s and 60s for locations along the Ohio River. The southern Great Lakes including Cleveland, Ohio, Detroit, Michigan, and Chicago, Illinois will see temperatures drop off a little bit from Christmas Eve, but it will still be unusually warm for this time of year, topping out in the 40s and 50s. The northern Great Lakes (mainly Wisconsin and the northern half of Michigan) will be colder, with highs in the 30s. Otherwise it looks like a dry Christmas day across the Great Lakes region, though some scattered rain showers and possibly an isolated thunderstorm are expected to move into the southern Great Lakes and Ohio Valley Christmas night, including Louisville, Cincinnati and Columbus. Meanwhile, if you’re looking for a White Christmas, then head to northern Wisconsin, where a couple inches of snow will be possible, but not until Christmas night.
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While nearly all the low pressure systems evaded Central Europe during the last couple of weeks, a lot of storms hit Northern Europe. One particularly strong depression affects Spitsbergen with hurricane force winds this weekend (19th/20th of December).

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