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Breaking record highs as temperatures climb into 70s on Christmas Eve
Posted On Dec 27 2015
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All week long we have been looking for some good in our forecast and just in time for Christmas Eve, one of those “quiet” periods of weather has arrived. Amazingly, Baltimore broke its record high for the date at midnight, when the temperature was 66 degrees.
This Christmas the National Weather Service forecasts partly sunny conditions, with a high temperature of 46 degrees and a low of 36.
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.
Although Christmas day didn’t break a record, Christmas Eve did, but not for temperature. Southwest winds up to 20 miles per hour with gusts of 35 miles per hour. There is a small chance of rain or freezing rain Christmas night, but little or no ice accumulation is expected.
National Weather Service meteorologist Zach Sefcovic, who’s based in Cleveland, attributed the warmer winter weather to a current climate cycle the country’s now experiencing. “Every year you know it gets more crowded and busier, and this year with the weather being so warm I think people come and linger and stay a while”, said Donna Farkas, owner of Donna C. Designs.
The hottest spot in Canada on Thursday was Cornwall, Ont., near the Quebec border, with a high of 19 C, Environment Canada said. The old record was December 22 set in 1998 and again in 1998.
An official reading of 68 degrees this morning shattered the all-time record for Christmas Eve in Rochester. Typically, high temperatures are in the upper 30s at this time of year.
The typical daytime highs run in the low 40s.
“It’s dipping into the Southwest and going to the central United States and then into NY and New England”.
It will be 11 degrees cooler in Los Angeles than NY today, with a high of 61 degrees.
It’s also the warmest Christmas Eve on record in Buffalo, New York. Twenty-five states could see record highs. There’s a high-pressure ridge over the East Coast that is causing the warm temperatures.
