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It’s the warmest Christmas Eve in NYC history
But the Antelope Valley is in for cold snap and possibly a white Christmas, the NWS said.
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Monday: It’s expected to be partly sunny, with a high only near 43 degrees.
New York City hit a record high for Christmas Eve early Thursday morning, reaching 67 degrees Fahrenheit (19 degrees Celsius) to best the previous record of 63 degrees (17 degrees C).
An 83-year-old record fell Thursday when a high temperature of 68 degrees was recorded at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport in Pittston Township, according to the National Weather Service in Binghamton, New York.
It wasn’t just NY.
Northeastern Pennsylvania has seen nine consecutive December days where the temperature didn’t fall below 32 degrees, which ties a record from 1984.
The combination of this super El Niño and climate change is said to be causing record breaking temperatures.
The record warmth is attributable to a flow of air sourced straight from the tropics.
Meteorologist Jacob Wycoff tweeted Thursday that Central Park was 70 degrees at 8 a.m.
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.
The forecast is calling for a daytime high of 8C and a low of 1C, a jump from an average high of 3C and low of -1C. This year, they averaged over 50 degrees.
And the temperature is expected to drop even more on Christmas, with a high of 56.
But what’s going on in the United States can’t be attributed to El Niño alone. High pressure over Bermuda is acting like pump, circulating air westward across the tropical Atlantic then north up the East Coast. Meanwhile, on the West Coast, there’s a low-pressure trough and plenty of snow coming down.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in some parts of the country, but in others it feels more like a typical spring day. Otherwise, there won’t be any big weather hazards, just unseasonably warm weather.
Some in the Southeast got a late start, or got waylaid altogether, by torrential rains and tornadoes.
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But the rest of Los Angeles County will not be immune to the rough weather. “(We) are prepared to respond to any request for assistance”.