Corner Brook -
Corner Brook has about a 96 per cent rating for white Christmases, with one year in the last 30 being definitely green.
While there are five years missing in the data - 1996 and four years in the 2000s - Linda Libby, warning preparedness meteorologist for Environment Canada, said there was no snow on the ground in Corner Brook in 1990.
This year's green Christmas is unusual.
A persistent low with a warm front brought rain and high temperatures that liquidated the snow pack before Santa Claus came to the Bay of Islands.
The weather system that brought rain Monday and Tuesday was expected to have pulled away leaving flurries for today.
"The weaker low that's crossing the Maritimes today (Tuesday) brought snow all morning to Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick," Libby said. "That'll be heading your way and a probably be absorbed into the bigger system, but there is going to be much cooler temperatures and northwesterly winds ushered in behind this low. That will lead to the flurry activity."
Snow squalls where winds blow onshore off the Gulf of St. Lawrence are also possible with 10 centimetres of snow falling locally. Flurries are also likely New Year's Eve morning. The flurries should weaken through the day.
The forecast calls for cloudy skies, but she believes there may be some breaks in the cloud with winds dying down a bit by the time people are setting off their fireworks.
Early next week, temperatures are expected to rise again.
"We seem to be in that see-saw between the warm and cool air," she said. "On the up-side, it's pleasant when it's warmer out, but you end up with in-between conditions where you go just above and just below freezing which isn't too good for travelling."
