Mother Nature tried to grant Sedona’s Christmas wishes with a blanket of holiday snow, but her timing was a bit off.

Mother Nature tried to grant Sedona?s Christmas wishes with a blanket of holiday snow, but her timing was a bit off.

Snow fell three days before Christmas and three days after.

Thursday, Dec. 28, Sedona residents saw the second flurries of the season. The first snow fell Friday, Dec. 22.

According to Denny Vancleve, a meteorology intern with Flagstaff?s National Weather Service, a low pressure system from the northeast brought snow to Sedona on Dec. 28.

Wrap-around moisture — moisture pulled from the Pacific Ocean by the system — produced 1/2 inch of snow by the end of the storm on Friday, Dec. 29.

The system flowed through most of Northern Arizona, hitting Flagstaff and making its way down Oak Creek Canyon into Sedona.

Other areas of Northern Arizona saw over a foot of snow.

Vancleve said Sunset Crater received 12 inches of snow while Pine topped the list at 15 inches.

Sedona received much less snowfall than other Northern Arizona cities.

But, according to statistics complied by David Silverbear of the Sedona Weather Center, Sedona received 139 percent of the normal snowfall in December 2006.

Vancleve said another short moisture producing system is coming through Friday, Jan. 8.

?It should be through by Saturday morning,? Vancleve said.

Whether more snow flies Friday in Sedona depends on how cold the system is, according to Vancleve.

Once Friday?s system passes through, he said, Sedona may get some rain, but things will calm down.

?After that passes it?s going to be quieter,? Vancleve said.

In January 2006, according to Silverbear?s statistics, Sedona received 8.3 percent of the normal snowfall.

No snow fell in February 2006, but winter made a final appearance in March with some accumulation.

For the remainder of the week, daytime temperatures in Sedona start in the 60s on Wednesday, Jan. 3, but drop down to the high 40s by Friday, Jan. 5.