Canadians are looking forward to experience the white Christmas this year.

According to Dave Phillips, senior climatologist of Environment Canada, most parts of country were predicted to encounter a green Christmas.

"It's an occurrence not seen on such a national scale since Environment Canada began measuring snowfall levels 56 years ago," said Phillips.

"It's not going to feel and look like Christmas. People are going to have to work hard to create the mood that sometimes weather creates,'' he added.

He explained that the condition could alter, but many of the Canadians would likely experience witnessing grasses on their grounds instead of snow.

Canadians define a white Christmas as something wherein the community encounters snow that is two centimeters deep on the ground at early in the morning.

For several years, approximately 85% of Canada experienced a white Christmas.

For this year, the most occupied places in Canada will witness a green Christmas. Snow will be too little on a late-day outbreak of melted snow due to the increasing temperature.

Phillips reported that cities such as Moncton, Montreal, Saint John, Halifax, Sudbury, South Toronto, Regina, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, and Sault Ste. Marie will not have their dream of a white Christmas come true.

''And Victoria, Vancouver, we don't even have to talk about that. They only have about an 11 per cent chance of having a white Christmas,'' said Phillips.

Winnipeg is Canada's coldest city. On Sunday, the temperature will be at 1C according to Phillips. He added that the people in Gander, N.L., won't probably be able to create snow balls and snow angels on Christmas.

Lucky are the people in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Quebec City and north Ottawa because they will witness snow this year.

However, those mentioned areas will have little snow compared to the usual snow experience in a typical year.

''Yes, there may be a couple of places where there's some decent population that just eke under the wire to get a white Christmas, but the depth will just be patchy, it really won't count,'' said Phillips.

The green Christmas to be experienced this year will not necessarily be experienced the same next year. It's just the outcome of a wide-ranging drift toward shorter and warmer winters in Canada as explained by Phillips while joking about enjoying the holding in Jan. or Feb. just to witness the snow.

''If we're looking at the reasons for it, I think climate change is certainly one,'' he added.

Phillips explained that it could be due to the climate change.

Phillips isn't sad about not having a white Christmas this year, which might also be the same with most of the Canadians.

''I much prefer a green Christmas to a Christmas where you've got dirty snow and yellow-stained snow in the driveway with garbage looking through,'' he claimed. ''Yes, there's two centimeters of snow, but my God, is it ever ugly.''