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A white Christmas — which requires at least an inch of snow on the ground on Christmas morning — is expected in parts of about 30 states, from Alaska, to the mountains of California, to Maine.

According to weather service data for Central Park, in the years after Mr. Berlin wrote the song, there wasn’t snow on Christmas in New York until 1945, a few months after the end of the war.

Snow was already on the ground on Christmas day in 1876, 1963, and 2004. On average, about once every ten years, snow is either covering the ground or falling from the sky.