Talk:White Christmas

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I have recently found the bing crosby merry christmas album set it is on decca i only have 4 sides i am missing the other 4 sides itis a 4 album set I was wandering ifit might be worth something to anyone it is in very good shape aside from not being complete if you could help me find out if it is worthless or not

best-selling singleRich Farmbrough 15:12, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Page move

White Christmas (snow) reads a little strangely. To disambiguate, maybe something like White Christmas (event) or White Christmas (phenomenon) would be better? -Runningonbrains 19:14, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Worldwide view

As Hateless keeps removing the worldwide perspective tag, and I don't want to start an edit war, I'll start discussion here.

This article does not represent a worldwide view. It mentions details and statistics for North America, and gives a little generic details about places in Europe, but makes no mention of anywhere else. What are the chances in Russia? Is it an important tradition there? What about the Southern Hemisphere? I know it's summer there, but this should be mentioned in the article for people who aren't as astute. And where are the references? I'm going to add a tag, as there are none in the first (and only important) paragraph. Sorry if I sound confrontational, I don't mean to be, just want to help make a better article. -Runningonbrains 21:27, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

White Christmases have been known to occur on a smaller scale in the souther hemisphere. Hobart in 2000 had a White Christmas, I remember.

I hate how these Christmas articles have an American bias. It's as if Amercians don't think anyone exists outside their own country. Katana Geldar 01:02, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Then add more information! As a first-generation American, I understand that Americans are often somewhat dismissive of the rest of the world. But you aren't going to get anywhere by asking us to write about something which we don't know much about (i.e., Christmas in the rest of the world.) Please help remove the bias by adding your own information. 128.36.158.58 (talk) 15:08, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

UK definition

The Irish definition is listed, but not the British, which is that snow has to fall on the MET Office roof http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/578168.stm Jddriessen (talk) 15:56, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Los Angeles and San Francisco White Christmas probability

The article states that Los Angeles and San Francisco have a 1% probability of experiencing a White Christmas. When did those two cities experience a White Christmas? The Los Angeles downtown area has never recorded a snowfall of an inch or more. San Francisco has six snowstorms in its recorded history, and none of them were on Christmas. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dpinzow (talk • contribs) 18:40, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Image

I removed the image from this article because it does not represent a white christmas - it simply showed a house in the snow. From the image description it was photographed on the 9th December so was not even taken at christmas. But apart from this technicality the image has nothing else to suggest it is a christmas scene. It is just a house in the snow. Feel free to replace the image with one taken at christmas and which includes some imagery that actually suggests it's actually christmas but please don't restore that particular image as it is not suitable. Polyamorph (talk) 18:32, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

this or this might be better, still not perfect as they were still not taken on christmas eve or christmas day but at least it has some christmas imagery (as opposed to a single undecorated house). Moreover, I'm sure if asked someone on commons would be able to come up with a suitable image, from today for example! Polyamorph (talk) 18:47, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

I see someone has already found an alternative! Still not taken on christmas day (as per the definition in this article) but nevertheless I personally think it is better to include some christmas imagery as opposed to simply a winter scene. Polyamorph (talk) 18:49, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

Ireland 2010

Someone recently changed the discussion of 2004 being Ireland's most recent white Christmas to the current text, which claims that 2010 was a white Christmas (from previous snowfall) but then cites a source from 2006. It's unclear to me whether or not snow on the ground - not falling - qualifies as a white Christmas in Ireland. If so, maybe someone can find a better source? It's good to be topical but we should be accurate. If not, maybe we should just change it back to 2004? AgnosticAphid talk 19:19, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

History per Irving Berlin

Did the concept of a "White Christmas" exist prior to Irving Berlin, or did his song make this an important concept? Wschart (talk) 18:18, 21 December 2011 (UTC)