Bob Marshall shovels newly fallen snow from a sidewalk on West Market Street in Lima on Christmas Eve in 1990. Snow on Christmas, prized by white Christmas enthusiasts if not by those who have to clean it off driveways and streets, is relatively rare in western Ohio. In a 1936 story published in the Lima News, a state meteorologist said “the fact of the matter is, snow on Dec. 25 is about as common as monsoons in Missouri.”