The temperature in New York City’s Central Park hit 66 degrees Fahrenheit, breaking the daily high record of 64 degrees set in 1982.
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Wes: Isolated showers, storms through Sunday; stronger storms po
Today’s warm front moves back south toward us as a cold front and that will spread additional rain and some thunder into the area. A weaker system with some showers to our south on Wednesday takes us down into the 30s as we end 2015 and start 2016.
Between 6 a.m. and noon, when many local youngsters will likely be tearing into gifts, the temperature is expected to rise from 47 degrees to 55 degrees.
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Through 1 p.m., Washington, D.C. had already reached 70 degrees, passing the record high of 69 from 1933.
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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. Mostly cloudy skies are expected on Friday night, along with a 40 percent chance of showers.
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.
“Cold air behind the front will drop snow levels down to between 3,000 feet and 4,000 feet”, the outlook said.
Temperatures reached 71 degrees Thursday at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport, six degrees above the record high. It will still be unseasonably warm, and there is the potential for strong storms with that frontal passage. Last year, records show, the temperatures weren’t much further off at a high of 56.
A late December storm promises to bring a white Christmas to San Bernardino mountain communities.
The springlike Christmas Day follows a record-setting Christmas Eve. NY and Washington are expected to set records.
Normally temperatures would be around freezing this time of year but this morning the skating surface at Nathan Phillips Square outside city hall was rippled with water.
There was straight-line wind damage recorded, the Weather Service said, including tossed wooden pallets, a telephone pole that was blown over and a shed that was destroyed.
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“Later in the week, we’re finally going to see some cool wind moving in”, she said.
