The warmest Christmas Eve the East Coast has ever seen

Thursday, Dec. 24, 2015  Record warmth surged up the Eastern Seaboard on Christmas Eve, sending temperatures soaring to summerlike readings from Florida to as far north as eastern Canada.

Dozens if not hundreds of warm record temperatures are likely to be set Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Several record highs were already set as of midday, in cities such as Charlotte, N.C., Indianapolis, Washington, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston and Providence.

The air mass is also quite humid, and comes to us straight from the tropics, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Record-breaking warmth will continue to grip much of the central and eastern states through Christmas Day and into this weekend, continuing what has already been a very mild month in those regions, Weather.com reported.

Some crazy highlights of this Christmas Eve weather:

  • It's was warmer in Albany, N.Y. (71 degrees) than in Phoenix (65 degrees), according to the National Weather Service.
  • New York City could see similar warmth on Christmas Eve than it had on July 4 (when it was 75), the weather service said. 
  • A weather station in southern Quebec near Montreal recorded a temperature of 70 degrees, some 40 degrees above average.
  • Killington Ski Resort in Vermont -- the eastern USA's largest -- reported rain and a temperature of 60 degrees.
  • Five of the six New England states were completely free of snow cover, with snow only on the ground in northern Maine.
  • Virginia Beach, Va., reported a heat index of 86 degrees as of mid-afternoon.
  • Burlington, Vt., soared to an all-time December record high temperature of 68 degrees, spurring on an impromptu Little League baseball game.
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