By Renee Duff, AccuWeather.com Meteorologist
December 11,2015; 10:58AM,EST
After a mild week across much of the eastern U.S., record-breaking warmth will build for the second weekend of December.
Temperatures are forecast to climb to levels more typical of October.
Warmth Increases Late Week
"Areas across the East will have several days in a row of record or near-record warmth through Monday," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dan Pydynowski said.
Some records that will be challenged have held since the 1800s.
"For example, highs in the upper 60s in Washington, D.C., this Saturday will come very close to the record high of 71 set in 1873. Sunday's record of 71 from 1889 will also be challenged," Pydynowski said.
Records will also be challenged across most of the East including Little Rock, Arkansas; Nashville; Detroit; Charlotte, North Carolina; Pittsburgh; Baltimore; Philadelphia; New York City and Buffalo, New York.
"To put into perspective how mild it will be, overnight low temperatures will be higher than the average daytime high temperature for this time of year," AccuWeather Meteorologist Michael Doll said.
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Dry and sunny conditions will compliment the warmth for much of the East.
The only exception will be a few showers across the Ohio Valley and into the Great Lakes, western Pennsylvania and upstate New York on Saturday, which will swing into northern New England on Sunday.
Both days will not be a washout by any means across these locations as showers will be brief and light.
Holiday shoppers should have no issues with any weather-related delays on the roadways when heading out to the local malls or markets this weekend.
The weather will also cooperate for the Army vs. No. 21 Navy football game in Philadelphia on Saturday and NFL football games on Sunday. Fans could leave jackets in the closet both days as partial sunshine and warmth are expected.
While warmth is in store through the weekend, a front that is forecast to bring flooding, severe weather and snow to the central United States will arrive in the East early next week.
"This front is expected to sweep through the region late on Monday, bringing lower temperatures for Tuesday. Many areas [across the East], however, will still be rather mild and above normal for this time of year," Pydynowski said.
The lack of any winterlike chill across the East has not been uncommon for the past couple of months. The month of November was one of the warmest months on record for many Eastern cities. This unseasonably warm pattern has continued right through the beginning of December and is forecast to hold through Christmas.
This is in contrast to last November and December when blasts of arctic air were common across the Midwest and East.
Neven Prvinic ·
I
am still going with 1982 as the nearly mirror image weatherwise of
2015, at least where I am at, so I am very strongly laening toward this
comming winter being another 1982-83 winter. I do not see as many
sililarity with 1997-98. Also I have seen 2006-07 thrown around a lot as
an analog. Not sure how the future will be, but 2006 does not resemble
2015 much in any way. Early 2006 was very warm, this year record cold.
Summer 2006 was warmer and more humid and wet. Summer 2015 was two
different summers in one, cool and wet first half, dry and normal and
very sunny second half. Also 2006 featured one of the coldest September
-October periods in recent memory, while 2015 gave us a 5F above normal
September and 1.5F above normal October.
Karen Rene Christie Hilyer ·
El
Nino is supposed to give us in the South colder than normal and wetter
than normal Fall/Winter. This ABSOLUTELY SUCKS! Our normal this time of
year is high 50s/low 60s, not 70s. Of course, this has happened before
in my lifetime, but I still abhor it.
Lee J Frankel ·
Lee J Frankel · University of Pennsylvania
I'm confused. Henry says that the Northeast (NY,NJ,Pa,etc.) will get clobbered with storms from mid-January through February. I assume
he means snow storms and not rain storms, but, regardless, his colleague Brett Anderson says that we have such a strong El Nino that we will have mild weather all the way through the winter and that the effects of El Nino won't wear off until winter 2017!! So which is it?
I'm confused. Henry says that the Northeast (NY,NJ,Pa,etc.) will get clobbered with storms from mid-January through February. I assume
he means snow storms and not rain storms, but, regardless, his colleague Brett Anderson says that we have such a strong El Nino that we will have mild weather all the way through the winter and that the effects of El Nino won't wear off until winter 2017!! So which is it?
Shawn Reichart
I'm
lovin this! No plowing, no shoveling, no pipes freezing, don't have to
wear 60lbs. of clothing to keep warm, no salt on the roads to rot out
your cars, no high heating bills. Life's good at the moment.
Nicholas McLaughlin ·
You won't love it when hordes of bugs invade, food prices skyrocket, and tropical diseases inch further and further north.
George Greene ·
Works at TopShelf Oldies
Hope this warmth sticks around all winter. After last winter, it will be a nice reward
Cory Morrison ·
And after 2013-14 as well. The next couple of winters need to be relatively mild to balance things out.
Cory Morrison ·
Tony
Kuderna the good thing about this current pattern is not just the
warmth itself, but that the West can get some much-needed
drought-busting rains. Keep in mind that in the last 2 winters, the
persistent Western Ridge causing the severe drought in California was
the main driver to the last 2 abnormally cold winters in the East.
Tony Kuderna ·
I rather be cold still waiting on winter for southern new england.
Cory Morrison ·
Oh, it will likely come in January and stick until March. Just a gut feeling I have.
Hopefully
this will be the last time we see 70F until the end of March. No more
warmth, please. I will be praying very hard for a much colder pattern to
take over and the warmth to be relegated to the West coast with a
massive trough in the East. Record warmth belongs in the West and
Alaska, not the East.
Cory Morrison ·
All areas are meteorologically entitled to have record warmth, and yes, that does include Eastern North America.
Works at Unemployed
I
think to make both sides of the country happy would be to level out the
Jet Stream from Southern California to Southern Texas and to Southern
Florida. This way, California could still get their much-needed rain
and back East could have a normal cold and snowy Winter. Pity the Jet
Stream doesn't really work out that way, since there's always a ridge on
one side of the country while the other side has a trough. But, that
would be the best solution if only the Jet Stream could do that.
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