Record warmth for Christmas Eve: Jim Teske’s Forecast

Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips said about 85 per cent of Canadians will have a green Christmas this year.

Christmas Day 2014 wasn’t too cold, either.

The potential for more wild weather comes after at least 14 people were killed as of Thursday night in devastating storms in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas.

However, the weather service has forecasted some winter weather for the coming days.

“I’m just really enjoying to be outside; have fresh air; it’s not cold”. Other than, that Christmas Eve and Christmas should be nice and dry, with a high of about 45 and mostly sunny conditions on Christmas Day.

“I miss it because I like to snowboard and stuff”, said another.

Weeks of speculation about the weather on Christmas can be put to bed: Warm temperatures, a mix of clouds and sun, and rain are on tap for Christmas 2015.

And while the calendar says winter, these unseasonably warm temperatures are likely to stick around into next week.

Moreover, he said that an atmospheric phase known as positive North Atlantic Oscillation (+NAO) is responsible for the current mild pattern in the Eastern U.S. Cooler, more seasonable air arrives for New Year’s Eve. Most of the East Coast, from Florida to New England, is experiencing record high temperatures on Christmas Eve, the Washington Post reported, hitting 30 to 40 degrees above average in some regions.

A man with a Santa hat wears a T-shirt as he walks along Fifth Avenue near Rockefeller Center, Dec. 24, 2015, in New York City.

The record-setting temperatures this Christmas Eve are part and parcel of an exceptionally warm December in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast.

Golfers took advantage of the warm weather at the course next to the park.

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.

A cold front pushes through Thursday. Temperatures are going remain above average through Wednesday.

It wasn’t just NY.