Coldest places (in winter) that rarely or never get snow? (snowy, days)

[nei]

Snow cover maps show most of China without snow this January. Patchy in February:

Rutgers University Climate Lab :: Global Snow Lab

[RustBeltOptimist]

Originally Posted by theropod

Any cities or towns that have winter highs of around 0C and yet they never get snow (or perhaps very rarely)?

In the US, look at Rawlins, Wyoming and the Red Desert near there. It's a mile and a half of elevation with daily mean temps around the -3 to -5C range, but it averages just half an inch of precipitation per month in the winter. The snow that would fall there gets diverted by and dumped in the Uintah mountain range leaving a very dry, cold basin that doesn't receive much itself.

[kutra11]

Coldest place where it never snows? That's got to be my mother-in-law's heart!!!

[kronan123]

Ulaangom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by kutra11

Coldest place where it never snows? That's got to be my mother-in-law's heart!!!

Haha...

I think Canberra is a good one. It usually gets subfreezing lows in the winter and yet it rarely gets snow.

[Anhityk]

An other Mongolian city Khovd gets less precipitation during Dec, Jan, Feb than Ulaangom but it has also a bit milder temperatures.Sum of precipitation of Dec, Jan, Feb is 3.9 mm only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khovd_(city)

[Maxwell Senf]

These places actually sound more miserable than parts of Siberia.

[Count David]

Originally Posted by RustBeltOptimist

In the US, look at Rawlins, Wyoming and the Red Desert near there. It's a mile and a half of elevation with daily mean temps around the -3 to -5C range, but it averages just half an inch of precipitation per month in the winter. The snow that would fall there gets diverted by and dumped in the Uintah mountain range leaving a very dry, cold basin that doesn't receive much itself.

Rawlins gets plenty of snow. My wife was even stranded there once during a blizzard.

Much of the Mojave Desert sees upper 10s-low 20s at night during winter, and much of it doesn't get snow on an annual basis.

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by Anhityk

An other Mongolian city Khovd gets less precipitation during Dec, Jan, Feb than Ulaangom but it has also a bit milder temperatures.Sum of precipitation of Dec, Jan, Feb is 3.9 mm only.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khovd_(city)

Good find there.

[FirebirdCamaro1220]

Originally Posted by RustBeltOptimist

In the US, look at Rawlins, Wyoming and the Red Desert near there. It's a mile and a half of elevation with daily mean temps around the -3 to -5C range, but it averages just half an inch of precipitation per month in the winter. The snow that would fall there gets diverted by and dumped in the Uintah mountain range leaving a very dry, cold basin that doesn't receive much itself.

I've driven through Wyoming on I-80 in the winter, and the entire ground is snow covered. The drier the air, the higher the snow to liquid ratio for precip, so in Wyoming it's like 25 to 1 ratio (25" snow to 1" liquid)