Record warmth, but snow is coming

The National Weather Service said temperature readings at Central Park reached 66 degrees at 12:31 a.m. Friday, edging out the previous record of 64 degrees set in 1982. Records aren’t kept for Fort Pierce and Stuart, but he said results are similar.

By the middle of the day, temperatures had climbed to 82 degrees – high enough to tie the mark set in 1964 for the hottest Christmas Day ever in Houston, NWS records show.

Torontonians who were hoping for a white Christmas may have been disappointed on Thursday when a warm air mass moving across Eastern Canada produced highs of 15 C – the warmest Christmas Eve in 175 years.

Seto said the light rainfall is normal for this time of year.

“The warmth is obviously the big story”, she said.

Flash flood watches are in effect through the weekend from the Appalachians and in the Southeast, according to The Weather Channel.

“The jet stream is going from southwest to northwest”. Christmas Eve temperatures reached into the high 70s and the warm weather is threatening to break Christmas highs as well.

An official reading of 68 degrees this morning shattered the all-time record for Christmas Eve in Rochester.

A line stretched out the door in the late afternoon at a frozen yogurt shop on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

As tens of thousands of CT residents and millions of Americans take to the roads this Christmas Eve weather is always a primary concern. I have mixed feelings.

Dozens of people in shorts and tank tops went running in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

Southern Californians seeking a taste of winter weather will get their wish this Christmas as a cold storm system swings through the region, bringing chilly temperatures, rain and even snow in the mountains.

Warmer-than-usual temperatures are projected to extend through January. Whereas, the average temperature for December 24 in Toronto is -1 C. Explaining the reason behind the increased temperatures, Phillips linked them primarily to the strongest El Nino in decades.