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A Warm Christmas Expected, In Already Record-Breaking Winter

More sunshine will break through the clouds Christmas Day Friday; Christmas Day is shaping up to be pleasant, with afternoon high temperatures in the mid-upper 40s.

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The combination of this super El Niño and climate change is said to be causing record breaking temperatures. December 2015 has already been the warmest December on record.

It’s all part of an unseasonable warm wave across the Eastern U.S. that meteorologists have jokingly called a “blowtorch” on social media, according to weather.com.

The record high for today is 58 degrees, and Western Mass News Meteorologist Dan Brown said there’s a great chance we’ll shatter that record. The average temperature on Christmas Eve is 41.

AAA projects year-end holiday travel will exceed 100 million people this year, which would be a record.

And while the calendar says winter, these unseasonably warm temperatures are likely to stick around into next week.

New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington D.C. and Charlotte, N.C. all set records on Christmas Eve.

The warm weather trend is playing out in much of the country. Temperatures continue to run well above seasonal averages for this time of year. Mostly sunny skies will help warm our temperatures up to around 60 degrees.

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“There have been eight years (12 percent of all years on record) classified as a white Christmas with a snow depth of 1 inch or greater”. High pressure over Bermuda is acting like pump, circulating air westward across the tropical Atlantic, then north up the East Coast.

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