Editing White Christmas (weather) (section)

==History==
The notion of "white Christmas" was popularized by writings of [[Charles Dickens]]. The depiction of snow-covered Christmas season found in ''[[The Pickwick Papers]]'' (1836), ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' (1843), and his short stories was apparently influenced by memories of his childhood, which coincided with the [[Year Without a Summer#Europe|coldest decade in England in more than a century]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20181217-how-dickens-made-white-christmas-a-myth |title=How Dickens made Christmas white |publisher=BBC |date=21 December 2018 | access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2016/what-was-christmas-like-for-charles-dickens/ |title=What was Christmas really like for Charles Dickens? |date=16 November 2016 | work=penguin.co.uk | publisher=[[Penguin Random House]] | access-date=22 May 2020}}</ref>

[[File:White Christmas trailer (1954) title frame.jpg|thumb|Title screenshot from the theatrical trailer for the film [[White Christmas (film)|''White Christmas'']] (1954)]]
The song, "[[White Christmas (song)|White Christmas]]", written by [[Irving Berlin]] and sung by [[Bing Crosby]] (with the Ken Darby singers and John Scott Trotter and his orchestra) and featured in the 1942 [[Paramount Pictures]] film [[Holiday Inn (film)|''Holiday Inn'']], is the best-selling single of all time and speaks nostalgically of a traditional white Christmas and has since become a seasonal standard.