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At 68 degrees, Montpelier, Vermont, smashes Christmas Eve temperature record

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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.


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Northerners accustomed to cozying up to a roaring Yuletide fire in a bulky sweater with a mug of hot chocolate may have to open the windows come Christmas. “I’m thinking it might be Noah”, said Gus Curtin of Annapolis. It felt more like Christmas a year before with a high temperature of 33 and a low of 22 and sunny and cool conditions, according to the weather service. The average Christmas Eve temperature in Buffalo is 34.


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It’s very unlikely Friday will be a white Christmas either. Skies are mostly cloudy for Christmas Day, and temperatures aren’t almost as warm.

“I’m just really enjoying to be outside; have fresh air; it’s not cold”. In the Adirondack Mountain village of Lake Placid, New York, home of the 1980 Winter Olympics, free golf was added to the list of holiday activities, and snow was trucked in so that people could go sledding. But the Atlanta airport experienced the largest delays after storms swept through the region.

Flash flood watches are in effect through the weekend from the Appalachians and in the Southeast, according to The Weather Channel. 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.

Rain will be possible today, which could dampen the holiday commute in the Wyoming Valley, but sunshine and warmth is expected on Christmas Day. There is a chance for showers returning late Sunday, but some models are holding off on wet weather until Monday.

British Columbia also has all the signs of a typical Canadian winter, with snow on the ground, ski resorts open and similarly slippery highways.

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However, if you happen to live in the West, you face no such crisis. Parts of northern Arizona will get snow on Christmas, while ME will not.

A man skates in shorts and a T-shirt at the skating rink in Bryant Park during unseasonably warm weather on Christmas Eve in the Manhattan borough of New York