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Record-breaking weather makes a green Christmas
Posted On Dec 27 2015
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That’ll shatter the Big Apple Christmas mark of 54 degrees set in 1982.
WARWICK, R.I. (AP) – Providence has broken a high-temperature record set just previous year as the mercury soared across Rhode Island.
Through 1 p.m., Washington, D.C. had already reached 70 degrees, passing the record high of 69 from 1933.
Reaching a high around 72 degrees, Thursday’s temperatures managed to break the prior record of 58 degrees set in 2003 in the morning, according to the National Weather Service in Albany. The average temperature this month has been 51.6 degrees.
The official whitest Christmas on record was December 25, 1951, when 13 inches of snow was recorded on ground late in the day. High pressure over Bermuda is acting like pump, circulating air westward across the tropical Atlantic, then north up the East Coast.
It’s not often that you hear the word “muggy” in a weather forecast for Christmas Eve in MA. Some areas will experience fog that could be locally dense.
2015 has been the Earth’s hottest yet since records have been kept.
Some meteorologists are referring to the warm weather as a “blowtorch” pattern in the East, primarily a product of what Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips called a “super El Niño”.
Forecasters also expect winds gusts of up to 45 miles per hour to toss that snow around throughout the evening. Six states reported a total of nine tornadoes, leaving a swath of destruction that included the deaths of ten people.
Abigail Torres runs through the Gateway Fountain at Discovery Green Park after her father had to change his plans to take his kids ice skating because the rink was closed due to the warm weather Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015, in Houston. Through the night, the NORAD team gave children information on Santa’s current location as he flew around the world delivering gifts.
At Rockaway Beach, winter seemed more like summer as two dozen surfers mostly went without winter hoods and gloves as they maneuvered through almost 5-foot waves.
