The climate is expected to change once again Sunday as the likelihood for yet another day of record warm returns, with temperatures expected to reach 66 degrees.
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The unseasonable warmth follows an exceptionally balmy Christmas Eve, when the mercury hit a record 72 in Central Park – rivaling temperatures this past July for the city. Sunday night will be the coldest as the temperature is expected to sink to 18 degrees, Seto said.
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Last year’s record for Christmas Day was 63 degrees.
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The official temperature for the region is recorded at the weather service station in North Charleston.
A wind advisory remains in effect until 1 pm on Thursday, with gusts as high as 50 miles per hour expected.
In Warwick, Harry and Denise Dowling jogged through Goddard Memorial State Park in T-shirts and shorts. The rain we were expecting to arrive very late Christmas Day is now forecast to hold off until Saturday. Some saw it as a good opportunity to tee off at the Deer Creek golf course in Ajax.
“There’s certain things that are guaranteed in weather: White Christmases in Sudbury, Sault Ste”.
The typical daytime highs run in the low 40s.
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.
Typically, temperatures in December average just below 39 degrees. The previous record was 64 degrees in 1982. The U.S. East Coast is experiencing the same phenomenon, with New York City expected to be several degrees warmer than Los Angeles, according to the BBC.
There’s also a blizzard watch in western Texas, and the clashing of cold and warm air is what’s behind some of the severe weather.
“It’s my favorite part of New York in the wintertime – Manhattan in the snow”, Colin Feeney of Queens told the New York Post.
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That’s a far cry from the frightful weather the city endured two years ago.
In 2013, a crippling ice storm, appropriately dubbed the “Nightmare before Christmas”, left nearly 70,000 Torontonians without power just days before Christmas.
