--- description: People across the United States are celebrating a white Christmas for Christmas 2017. The Northeast, Midwest and Pacific Northwest got snow. title: People Across the U.S. Are Celebrating a White Christmas image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [weather](/tag/weather/) ## weather Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # People Across the Country Are Celebrating a White Christmas Today  by [Jamie Ducharme](/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Dec 25, 2017 5:21 PM CUT  by [Jamie Ducharme](/author/jamie-ducharme/)  ## Jamie Ducharme Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Dec 25, 2017 5:21 PM CUT All that dreaming must have paid off: Many parts of the U.S. are [celebrating a white Christmas today](http://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/white-christmas-snow-2017 "undefined"). Large swaths of the Northeast woke up to a Christmas snowstorm on Monday morning, with some parts of Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut and New York reporting an inch of snow per hour, [according to the Weather Channel](https://weather.com/storms/winter/news/2017-12-22-winter-storm-ethan-christmas-snowstorm-rockies-midwest-northeast "undefined"). Maine’s Cumberland County, meanwhile, got hammered with 3.7 inches per hour late on Christmas morning. The Weather Channel adds that the Boston and Pittsburgh areas got even more unique Christmas weather: [thundersnow](http://time.com/4700918/what-is-thundersnow-winter-storm-stella/ "undefined"). Other parts of the country, including parts of Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri and Michigan, also saw Christmas Day snow, [according to NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/winter-storm-sweeps-across-midwest-toward-new-england-promising-christmas-n832471 "undefined"). Seattle even saw its first white Christmas in nearly a decade, [Fox News reports](http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/12/25/seattle-sees-first-white-christmas-in-nearly-decade.html "undefined"). No white stuff where you live? Check out these gorgeous photos of white Christmases around the country. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5079185/white-christmas-winter-snow/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5079185/white-christmas-winter-snow/"},"headline":"People Across the Country Are Celebrating a White Christmas Today","datePublished":"2017-12-25T17:21:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T18:40:43.851Z","description":"Check out the festive photos","url":"https://time.com/5079185/white-christmas-winter-snow/","keywords":["weather","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jamie Ducharme","jobTitle":"Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5079185/white-christmas-winter-snow/","name":"People Across the Country Are Celebrating a White Christmas Today"}}]}] ```