Based on historical averages, New Jersey’s northwestern counties with higher terrains — like Sussex, Warren, Morris and Passaic — have a 20% to 40% chance of getting a white Christmas in any given year. The odds are worse in other parts of the state.

In the Lower 48, here's typically where you should go if you want a white Christmas: Minnesota, Maine, upstate and western New York, the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, practically anywhere in Idaho and, of course, the Rockies or the Sierra Nevada Mountains, NOAA said.