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With Dec. 25 less than a week away and a thick blanket of snow on the ground, it’s looking like it’ll be a white Christmas in Ottawa this year.

Environment Canada predicts that the highest temperature between now and Christmas will be 2 C on Wednesday. Scattered flurries are expected on Thursday.

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Despite the gradual rise in expected temperature towards the end of the week, 2016 will mark the 47th time in the past 60 years that Ottawa plays host to a winter wonderland on Christmas Day, according to data collected from Environment Canada.

It will be first white Christmas in the nation’s capital since 2013.

In the past 22 years, the first major snowfall in Ottawa has arrived as early as October in 1997 and as late as April in 2007.

Precipitation is only classified as a “major snowfall” when 10 cm of snow or greater has amounted, which the city welcomed on Nov. 20 when 14.8 cm fell to the ground.

However, three more snowfalls exceeding 10 cm have already occurred since—Nov. 30, Dec. 5 and Dec. 12.

The first official day of winter isn’t until Wednesday, but Ottawa residents have already made frequent use of their shovels in advance of this year’s holiday season.