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Balmy temperatures to remain through Christmas weekend

The National Weather Service said temperature readings at Central Park reached 66 degrees at 12:31 a.m. Friday.

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By the middle of the day, temperatures had climbed to 82 degrees – high enough to tie the mark set in 1964 for the hottest Christmas Day ever in Houston, NWS records show. In Raleigh, high temperatures will approach the record high for the day, which is 75, set back in 1955.


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All week long we have been looking for some good in our forecast and just in time for Christmas Eve, one of those “quiet” periods of weather has arrived. Winds are expected to reach 30 to 40 miles per hour with gusts up to 50 to 70 miles per hour.


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Simpson says the higher-than-average temperature is the result of warm air moving across the country; the same weather pattern dumped tons of snow on Colorado.

The previous record high for December was 82 degrees, set on Dec. 7 and 8, 1998.

In another example of just how remarkably warm it is right now in Gotham, the mercury hit 75 degrees this past Fourth of July – so just a single degree more than Thursday’s high.

“The cold air is in the west and the warm air is in the north”, Gill said.

The combination of this super El Niño and climate change is said to be causing record breaking temperatures. The Christmas Day high will be a somewhat balmyh 63 degrees in Bartlesville.

I wish I could carry the “quiet” weather into Christmas Day but a surge of deep tropical moisture will move out of the Gulf leading to increasing rain chances. 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.

The normal high for Christmas Eve in Charleston is 60 degrees. The high temperature of 65 degrees, forecast by Accuweather, was achieved by 1 p.m.

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Daytime temperatures in the region won’t vary much from the 50s to 60s into the weekend and the overnight low will be in the lower 40s and could sink into the mid 30s in the metro area valleys Sunday night, Seto said.

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