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Record breaking warmth Christmas Eve
In Boston, December is running more than ten degrees warmer than normal and 5 degrees above the previous warmest December on record according to the National Weather Service. The iPhone forecast, powered by the Weather Channel, doesn’t show temperatures cooling down until Monday, when the high will still be at least 10 degrees above freezing. To put this in context, the average high temperature on Christmas Eve in the city is about 40 degrees. That’ll shatter the Big Apple Christmas mark of 54 degrees set in 1982.
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It will continue cold and blustery on Saturday, with a high of just 23 degrees in Flagstaff.
Meteorologists say a flow of warm air from the deep tropics caused the unseasonably high temperatures. The typical Christmas Day in our area is cloudy with frosty mornings and lows around 30 degrees.
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. Snow is forecast to spread to the Plains and Upper Midwest later on Christmas Day. Rounds of showers will move through all weekend and into early next week…In the wake of a soggy, dreary weekend, cooler temperatures slide in by mid next week, with day time highs in the 30s.
The records date back to 1869.
There’s a very good chance Central New York will set a new temperature record Thursday.
A man with a Santa hat wears a T-shirt as he walks along Fifth Avenue near Rockefeller Center, Dec. 24, 2015, in New York City.
High temperatures also continued in upstate NY, where mid-afternoon temperatures Friday reached 58 degrees in Albany, 47 degrees in Buffalo and 50 degrees in Syracuse.
Not only are we in for a snow-less Christmas, but the temperatures are going to be leaps and bounds above normal.
The typical daytime highs run in the low 40s.
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El Niño, an irregularly occurring weather event in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, is transferring heat stored in the water west to east across the U.S. while helping deter colder Arctic air, according to Bob Oravec, lead forecaster with the National Weather Service.