By Brett Rathbun, AccuWeather.com Meteorologist
December 25,2015; 9:36PM,EST
Christmas Eve felt more like Memorial Day across much of the eastern United States as temperatures rose between 20 and 35 degrees above average and 5-15 degrees above previous record highs.
Records were broken from the Southeast to New England with some areas breaking their previous record high by more than 10 degrees F.
Some records were broken from the 1800s.
The highs that occurred on Thursday are more typical of late spring and early summer.
"One of the most impressive records on Christmas Eve occurred in Burlington, Vermont, when the city set their all-time December high temperature," AccuWeather Meteorologist Brian Lada said.
Burlington rose to 68 F on Christmas Eve, 17 degrees higher than the previous record of 51 F set in 1957. The all-time warmest day prior to Thursday in Burlington was on Dec. 7, 1998 and Dec. 5, 1941 when it reached 67 F.
Some cities broke their record high just after midnight.
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The surge of warmth left many across the Northeast without a white Christmas. The only location able to see at least an inch of snow on the ground on Christmas was across northern Maine.
"Records also fell all along the Interstate 95 corridor from Boston through Washington, D.C.," Lada said.
High temperatures rose into the 70s on Christmas Eve along the Interstate 95 corridor from New York City to Washington, D.C. Boston was 1 degree shy of reaching the 70-degree mark.
This Christmas Eve caused many people to head outside without a jacket rather than being dressed in layers of long-sleeve shirts and heavy winter coats.
Claire
Tiedemann plays on the beach in Manasquan, N.J., on a warm Christmas
Eve on Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)The lack of a snow pack also allowed temperatures to rise very quickly, especially in areas of sunshine.
This overall mild trend will lead to this December being the warmest on record across many Eastern cities.
Through Christmas Eve, temperatures are more than 10 degrees above normal for the month across much of the Ohio Valley and Northeast.
After a slight cooldown from Christmas Day into Saturday, a push of milder air will build across the East on Sunday and will cause cities to challenge records yet again.
"New York City and Baltimore are some of the cities that could break records yet again on Sunday before a cold front washes away the warmth," Lada said.
For
the first time ever,my family had the air conditioner on this
afternoon, the first time we had ever put it on past October 15. Our
church also had their AC on yesterday evening for their Christmas Eve
mass for the first time ever on that date,too.Talk about crazy
weather,truly summer in winter.
Len LaBrecque ·
Works at Cincinnati Police Department (Ohio)
thank you mother nature.
Joseph Graziose
I
am not so much of a warm weather "fan" (although I use them when it
gets hot), I am just more of a detester of my precious time scraping
glued-on ice that starts as freezing rain then multiple inches of snow
on all of my car windows---one of the many ways winter is a congealing,
energy depleting, time of year, esp if you work hard for a living as I
do needing my car for appontments on overpopulated Long Island....tried
to move to San Diego 20 years ago--now that's a paradise climate esp
very little humidity in summer, lemons in the backyard, aaaaah!!!...but
it fell throughand now I'm stuck here again with the highest taxes to
pay for snow removal and my baseboard heating....only hoping for a good
freeze for the mosquitos and ticks, then I want my crocus! Thanks to
everyone for posting interesting articles about anti AGW--great reads!
James G. Brown ·
Works at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Its a El Nino...the same thing has happened in 1998. Worldwide global tempetures also fluxuate. Man-made global warming.
Michael James ·
Works at Self-Employed
dam conservitives will look the burning sun in the face and say it is a liberal conspiracy!!!!!!! we deserve what we get lol
John Goode
This chart (PDF) from Weather.gov
details record highs and lows for Richmond Va. Some records go back to
1906. Well before common use of internal combustion engines and coal
fuled power plants.
January 1906 Temp. 75 Deg. January 7 1907 Temp. 78 Deg.
Clearly, unusually warm temperatures in the East is not really that "unusual".
http://www.weather.gov/.../climat.../RIC_Climate_Records.pdf
January 1906 Temp. 75 Deg. January 7 1907 Temp. 78 Deg.
Clearly, unusually warm temperatures in the East is not really that "unusual".
http://www.weather.gov/.../climat.../RIC_Climate_Records.pdf
John Smith
Warmth,
the best gift on Christmas. No snow plows buring fossil fuels, no salt
contaminating the earth, millions of people not burning fire wood,
thousands of fewer car accidents, thousands fewer injuries and deaths
from snow and ice related accidents, hundreds of homes that did not burn
as people try to heat their homes with faulty appliances, thousands
fewer heart attacks from shoveling heavy snow.
Warmth, good for the earth, good for the people.
Warmth, good for the earth, good for the people.
George Greene ·
Works at TopShelf Oldies
Great Christmas Eve weather.....and the 23rd was even warmer
Quit fanning the AGW fears. IT was warmer in 1955. No more lying.
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