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Toronto and other Ontario cities have received the hottest Christmas Eve on record due to the warm air mass pushing across Eastern Canada on Thursday.

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It’s going to be variably cloudy and unseasonably warm with a few peeks of sun today, with high temperatures in the mid-60s, according to the Millersville University Weather Information Center.

Wednesday’s high in Chicago was 59 degrees, two degrees shy of the December 23 record of 61 set in 1981.

In Warwick, Harry and Denise Dowling jogged through Goddard Memorial State Park in T-shirts and shorts. The weather service predicts a 90 percent chance of snow, freezing rain and sleet before 1 a.m. Tuesday. Expect temperatures in the 60s for the evening.

In Quebec, Montreal was at a high of 16C and Quebec City was forecasting 12 C.

It’s not often that you hear the word “muggy” in a weather forecast for Christmas Eve in MA.

The official high measurement taken at Detroit Metro Airport was just 6 inches, making that the historical snow depth recorded for the area.

In an online report, meteorologist William Deedler said the outlooks for snow on Friday “is lower than average, given the sustained warm temperatures”.

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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. Still, he expected temperatures to remain above normal. “It’s been a little bit of a struggle early on with the warm weather, but we’ve still had great crowds all season as usual”, said Mike Schulman, Bryant Park rink manager. The Big Apple has seen highs in the upper 50s this week, while temperatures reached the low 70s on Christmas Eve.

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