The high temperature of 15.4 C in Toronto just missed the 1964 record by three degrees to be the warmest day in the city since 1840, i.e. the time since meteorologists started tracking temperatures downtown.
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Christmas Eve Forecast: Record-shattering warmth today
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in some parts of the country, but in others it feels more like a typical spring day. Green Christmas wins out this year with record-breaking temperatures making for a holiday that could get Heat Miser singing.
Former Olympic athlete Pat Connolly, of Charleston, S.C., stretches while barefoot in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, in NY, where temperatures were expected to be as warm as 70 degrees.
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Neither Otis nor his owner, Brandi Enrique, had to bundle up during a walk on Christmas Eve, when temperatures spent most of the day in the upper 70s. Record highs stay safe, though we are close.
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Today: Expect a high between 62 and 66 degrees.
Why has it been so warm on the East Coast?
Even in the farthest northern reaches of Canada, it’ll be a shockingly warm 50 degrees on Thursday.
The Midwest and parts of the South will feel slightly warmer, with Chicago reaching about 44 degrees (10 degrees warmer than usual), and St. Louis at about 56 degrees (16 degrees warmer), according to The Weather Channel.
It’ll be hotter in NY than in sunny Southern California on Thursday and Friday, where La La Land residents will experience 63- and 60-degree days, respectively.
An official reading of 68 degrees this morning shattered the all-time record for Christmas Eve in Rochester.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said November was the seventh consecutive month that a global temperature record was broken, and the United Nations has already declared 2015 the warmest year on record.
These holiday temperatures are about 20 degrees above normal, and are more indicative of late spring and early summer.
Forecasters said El Nino, the warming of the Pacific Ocean near the equator, is driving warm air eastward and keeping cold air from the Arctic at bay.
Monday | Wintry mix of rain, snow, sleet.
Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 46.
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Residents are breaking out short sleeves and light jackets this Christmas eve. “For instance, just in the last 30 years in OH, it’s only snowed seven years on Christmas Day”.
