In fact, the temperature on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day will be higher in New York City than in Los Angeles and Phoenix.
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Violence casts a pall over Christmas in Bethlehem
Annual festivities in the city’s Manger Square were not postponed or canceled due to the violence, the network reported . But vendors and hotel owners in the city have already complained of sagging business this Christmas season.
Many other major metropolitan areas along the US East Coast could see records fall on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
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During the Cold War India was the Soviet Union’s closest military ally and a major importer of its military hardware. Before heading for the Kremlin, Modi laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier here.
“We’re flirting with incredibly high temperatures as it is”, said meteorologist James Carpenter, National Weather Service, Charleston. Skies are mostly cloudy for Christmas Day, and temperatures aren’t almost as warm.
Storms continue to batter United States south
Heavy damage was inflicted in the south, causing seven deaths in MS alone, according to the state’s Emergency Management Agency. A tornado touched down near Birmingham, Alabama , Friday afternoon and destroyed several houses, though no one was killed.
Environment Canada has forecasted highs of 16 degrees today in Montreal, Ottawa, and Toronto, while parts of the Maritimes will get up to 13.
In Warwick, Harry and Denise Dowling jogged through Goddard Memorial State Park in T-shirts and shorts.
There will be many smiling faces on Christmas morning, and the weather will only help to brighten those smiles.
It should be easy to go over the river and through the woods to grandma’s house on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
The weather service says over the past 115 years, there have been 54 – or 47 percent – official white Christmases in the Detroit area.
Temperatures will remain below normal throughout the region into next week.
The record high for Christmas Eve was already broken at midnight Thursday when the temperature topped 64 degrees. Many people are donning T-shirts instead of ugly Christmas sweaters, and lawn-mowers may even be rumbling instead of snow-blowers.
And a new storm is taking shape in the Plains, bringing colder temperatures with it. There could be snow and ice from the Texas Panhandle north to Kansas and Missouri. Twisters that dotted the landscape from MI to Arkansas on Wednesday continued Thursday, along with torrential rains and strong winds.
With the lower Manhattan skyline in the background, Meg Roebling runs through Brooklyn Bridge Park, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, in NY.
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A weather station southwest of Montreal hit 70 degrees at 10 a.m Thursday; Bennington, Vt., reached 70 at 11 a.m.
