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East Coast Celebrates Christmas With Warmest Weather On Record
It was just 10 months ago that Boston smashed its all time snowfall record, and the US was blanketed in freezing weather from west to east as the Polar Vortex unleashed cold air for the second year in a row. It was so cold, the GDP report for the winter period had to be double-seasonally adjusted as the sharp economic slowdown, which was blamed on the "harsh weather", simply did not make sense otherwise.
Fast forward to today when according to AccuWeather, Christmas 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.
While unlikely that it was the hottest Christmas ever - temperature recordings only go so far - records were broken all along the Eastern Seaboard, 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.

More from AccuWeather:
"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.
As a result of the warm weather, the entire Northeast was left without a white Christmas. The only location which saw at least an inch of snow accumulation 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.
The warmth is expected to continue, and 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.
Following a modest cooldown on 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.
Just as last year's unprecedented cold had a specific catalyst, namely an abnormally active Polar Vortex, so this year's record hot weather is due to two things. As explained last week, typically this time of year, Arctic Oscillation would bring cold air to the Eastern U.S., bringing temperatures down. But so far this year, the oscillation has stayed much farther north, allowing warm air from the south to fill the void.
The other factor is El Niño, a periodic climate cycle in which sea surface temperatures over the eastern Pacific become warmer than usual. The effects from changes in Arctic Oscillations generally last only a few weeks, but the balmy weather in the Northeast could continue because of the El Niño effect, experts say.
We'll leave the discussion of whether the weather anomalies of the past three years are due to global warming, or "climate change", as it is now known, to others, but we will ask: if the past two years saw GDP boosted by 1.5% on average in the winter as a result of abnormally cold weather, does that mean that the US economy, which according to the Atlanta Fed was "growing" at 1.3% net of the record heat, is already in a recession?
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It's all Putins fault. He ran out of money to operate the Russian Bad Weather Machine, targeting the USA.
Seriously, unless the record goes back a few million years, I refuse to be impressed.
If only we had the carbon tax in place, this would have never happened
That's right! We all know that 97% of Scientists agree that Carbon Taxes prevent El Niños.
This is great. I have not yet turned on my heat, and this afternoon I'll be Striper fishing in my t-shirt.
So much for the "unusually harsh winter weather affected retail sales results" meme.
"It's too warm to shop"
...or..
"Gas is too cheap to drive to the mall to shop."
I read 97% of scientists beleeve the warm weather is due to the "reverse Fuki effect" that punched a hole in the sky.
It's a fact.
No?
To whom ever down voted my above post. My Santa stick a coal dildo up your ass.
This is obviously warm air blowing over from the desolate Agrabhrainian plains.
Planet is warming up for sure and it started long time ago before human activity. Otherwise how do you explain the disappeared mile high snow and ice from Manhattan. some crooks wants to make money out of it.
Here's a little perspective, courtesy the wonderful PTAK Science Books: A map of the glacier that once covered New York City in thick ice some 20,000 odd years ago, carving out the landscape we know today.
http://gizmodo.com/a-map-of-the-mile-thick-ice-sheet-that-made-modern-ma...
Stop trying to confuse "climate scientists" with science.
See Some Anthracite Cram Some Lignite
Pretty sure you couldn't get 97% of any group to agree that the warm weather was
a result of the absence of cold weather.
No, now it's slow sales of winter clothing
Have yet to break out the pole for the strippers this season, what a great idea.
Meanwhile, in Central NJ, last night sipping cocktails, in short sleeves, on the deck while watching the kids run around with just socks on, it was mentioned nore than once how bizarre this all is...
Both a Stripper Pole and a Striper Pole sound good to me. There are still fish in central NJ from the reports I am getting.
The "fall run" hasn't even started in delaware surf, but there are a scad of fish still in the DelBay.
My water company is still charging me a drought tax even though I cut back 50% from normal, and it
is raining buckets every single week.
Funny how that works, they are also looking to give out 20K new water hookups.
They want to see how low you can go and then add new users at a higher rate.
Because controlling the weather is the best way to control the US economy.
Merry Christmas!
Al Gore, for Chrissakes, shut your mouth already.
Today it's "Global Warming," next week when the cold front rolls through it'll be "Climate Change."
"Today it's "Global Warming," next week when the cold front rolls through it'll be "Climate Change"
I just call it geoengineering.
Most "adults" live with their heads of their asses so they don't seem to be able to figure it out...
http://youtu.be/DPnWaBsMYnY
Hell most idiots on ZH have their heads up their own asses.
Ghost, your non-believer, infidel attitude has earned you a place on the Beheading schedule in the town square. There is an open slot for Dec 29th at 10:15 am. Please be there sharp as the beheaders have a tight schedule.
Your cooperation will be appreciated.
Loki
At least thats a quick death.
Xtians destroy your name, give you a criminal history, bar you from any meaningful employment and then blame you for it.
You're clearly an immature cry baby who's never taken responsibility for anything in your life, and probably never will- a transparent failure at life.
And to think we used to go skiing in Pennsylvania as kids over Christmas weekend or the weekend after due to fewer crowds. My own children and grandchildren will never believe it.
Am I the only conservative who realizes that global warming is happening, regardless of cause? Could be us, could be natural variations in the sun's output, but it's probably a combination of both.
I'm going to have to move to Yellowknife or Whitehorse just to experience a temperate climate. You fuckers can have your Florida, heat, humidity, mosquitoes, Hatians, and redneck trailer parks. Not even a sledding hill either and that's a shame.
Only idiots believe the earth is getting warmer, or that man has anything to do with it. What is your background in Thermodynamics? That's what I thought...just another moron with a stupid opinion backed up by nothing at all.
That is all.
"Only idiots believe the earth is getting warmer, or that man has anything to do with it."
Right so burning dino goo and fighting wars over it makes you genius.
Talk about idiots-thou art one.
Why do you think my post had anything to do with war or oil??
Talk a being an idiot, btw, NASA now says "BURNING fossil fuels CAUSES GLOBAL COOLING" Why do idiots like yourself believe this "settled science".
Sorry, are you still thinking oil comes from dinosaurs?
Nope but most oil worshippers are bible bangers so you have to lower your arguements to fit their biases.
Oil is constsntly being made by the earths chemical interactions but try explaining that to semitic sky god worshipper.
My apologies, I had sarcasm detector turned down.
Non sequitur.
Obvious troll is obvious.
Only idiots believe the earth is getting warmer? At least they offered anecdotal evidence. All you offer is an opinion.... a moronic stupid opinion.
Of course the earth has been warmer and colder in the past. Only idiots believe that climate change doesn't occur.
Earth as a whole cannot get warm or cold within few decades. If north is warming up, definitely south is getting more cold. but there are no money maker at the south pole so no hue and cry from south.
Of course it can get warmer or colder in 10 years. Maybe 10 years doesnt make a trend. But then again 10 years doesnt mean it isnt a trend.
The sun is slowly warming has been since it formed.
The earth used to spin a lot faster way back, too.
Only idiots believe the world won't change.
What's your 'background' by the way?
It's not that your the only conservative that believes in global warming, it's that your the only retard who does. Fixed it for ya
he is the only retard that believes in global warning.... so you are saying all the other retards don't believe in global warming. Well said. I agree.
"I'm going to have to move to Yellowknife or Whitehorse just to experience a temperate climate. You fuckers can have your Florida, heat, humidity, mosquitoes, Hatians, and redneck trailer parks. Not even a sledding hill either and that's a shame.
"
Oh boo hoo you fucking daffy PC head up your ass cunt!
Stay indoors all winter and keep being a pale sickly lacking in vitamin C and calcium bitch!
This is how white people in Florida get down!
http://youtu.be/u34N0Nbpftg
*zero fucks given to canadians, wetbacks, gooks, spics, kikes, niggers, dot heads and other assorted mud colored cunts!
And a Merry Christmas to you too!
Uh, what? Merry Christmas indeed.
Unlike you Floridians I'm at least healthy enough to be able to deal with northeast winters. Having good blood flow helps with that, but keep eating hot dogs and smoking cancer sticks if you want. No worries, Obama will pay for your cancer treatments and heart disease.
Hey asshole, we have tailer parks in Pennsylvania too. And its 60F currently here at 10:47 am. Unfortunately its going to start raining again and more rain forecast for the next couple days with maybe only one day, Monday where I can take my road bike out for a ride. I'll take what we have now over the foot of snow you want. A lot less of old folks will be dying of heart attacks from shoveling that shit. I recall it was much the same last winter and a short time later the snows hit and along with it comes that salty shit they spread on the roads that eat up the underside of your trucks and cars. Nothing much good about snow or a cold winter unless you like higher heating bills. So go find that yourself a cold spot in some desolate ice hole, I prever to find a cold one to drink. Taste much better when the weather isn't freezing.
I'm in Wisconsin this year and it's about 50. Yesterday I heard the warmest Christmas on record here is 61 in 1982, 33 years ago. They also mentioned the following year, 1983, there was over 20" of snow.
It's called weather patterns and they change and always will
I'm looking at the 'gator in one of my ponds right now, hoping he will eat some of the rattlesnakes and/or
water mocaisins.
You think mosquitos are the main problem down here ?
Its a long way from English Public school,but I love it.
You're a fucking lunatic with no comprehension of the weather.
IT IS NOT THE HOTTEST ON RECORD, ZEROHEDGE.
Not even close. http://realclimatescience.com/2015/12/christmas-day-1955/
no comprehension, is the blackest pot calling the kettle black. ie. you are stupid.
The article is EAST COAST, not Murica. I think your comprehension is lacking, but just to clarify, in your link it shows that More than half of the US was over 60 degrees on Christmas Day, 1955.
Whereas, in the ZH article, it says 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
Putting 2 and 2 together, that makes your link of over 60 degrees compared to the ZH article of 68 and 70s, = you are an idiot.
>>The article is EAST COAST
>>eastern United States
Learn how to fucking read. Honestly, there's no real reason for you to be alive if this is how stupid you're going to pretend to be. It was hotter just this last century, all along the east coast.
Either way you are still wrong. But at least you are still an idiot.
There used to be snowmobile dealerships in Delaware growing up there in the 50s-60's. People in this area with snowmobiles now take them to Canada to get some use out of them. Every kid had a Flexible Flyer sled and a hill to use them on. Our parent's full size Fords and Chevys had snow chains in the trunk and snow tires on the rear wheels. Every year you could walk way out on the ice on the upper Chesapeake Bay.
But no worries, the sun is going to take a nap and we might even see the Thames River freeze again. There is climate change but it works both ways.
Lived in DC in 2010 when we had the snowiest winter on record there. It was a Minnesota-like winter.
Same, it was a blast considering just days before I had been released from government servitude and no longer had to fight for the Muh'Izwael-Oil-Industrial-Complex. Oh how young and naive I was back then.
Try Donner Pass.
Nippy weather and a free lunch.
Now for today's Wall Street weather: Scattered Muppets followed by Heavy Bailouts
But......but....that has been Wall Street's weather for the past 8 years. What happened to climate change?
cuz Ms Piggy always gets her way
Just curious:
Are we attempting to save the planet or save the human race on the planet?
Are we trying to lock in some unnatural, historically unknown climate conditions/ temperature because we humans like the way it is now? Are we attempting to put an unnatural thermostat (climate controls) on the earth’s weather?
We are attempting to save the top 10 to 15% of humanity I believe. Keep that quiet, would you?
0.001%
Yeah, let 'em kill all the engineers and technicians who can repair their robo-automated factories when shit goes down, and let's see how long they make it repopulating the earth with their inbred kin.
There's something wrong here! There was a New YorkCity Christmas in the 1970s with temps above 70. I think I smell a global warming rat.
Climate change has always happened. Even before humans.
Liberals take notes!
Radiation has always happened. Even with humans. Fukishima.
Conservatives take notes!
Too hot to shop! Sorry GDP.
Why is this a political topic? Can't we just have a debate about the facts and simple scientific principles? Stop that red and blue shit already, it's just a distraction.
I'm just happy that after 3 winters of my balls turning into fucking ice cubes I can actually function without having to plan logistics like an Eagle Scout every time I want to leave the house.
Meh... red balls, blue balls, it's all good.
The rate of warming due to climate change/global warming is predicted to be ~2°F over a century. I don't care where you stand on the issue, if you go outside and say "Global Warming" you are a straight up moron.
Predictions by who based on what?
'Hide the decline' predictions?
heavy rains coming to California. Right after Govenor Brown declared the doom of California due to climate change.
And its 1 fucking degree in the Sierras with multiple feet of snow and its not even January. I guess they stopped teaching 'weather patterns' in those EBT Colleges....
FUCK YOU MOONBEAM!
Fodder for the global warming bamboozlers. Carbon tax forthcoming.
Whether or not carbon dioxide is a problem, Carbon Tax is coming.
It's not about the carbon, FFS, it's about the TAX!
Set up for slow christmas sales. Coats and sweaters not selling. We're all going to die. Merry Christmas everyone
Fuck humans. Save the planet instead!
Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!
You have it ass backwards. Once the planet has had enough of our follies, she will simply shrug, kick us off into extinction, and resume her peaceful existence.
Don't worry about Mother Earth. She's doing just fine.
Kill yourself. Lead by example.
I wish you a politically correct (PC), non-denominational , LGBT friendly , BlackLivesMatter (BLM) (sympathetic towards)holiday season and a relatively happy New Year (if that is what you want).Cant say Merry Christmas (b/c) that wouldn’t be PC.
Christmas is a pagan holiday ( So my atheist/agnostic friends should like that )and has little to do with my boss,Jesus Christ of Nazareth. BLM miss the real problem is all the good jobs sent to chindia. And of course ,drug prohibition.
How is that prohibition working out for ya?Murder rate ,steady drop over the last 35 yrs. goog. “FBI murder statistics”
GLobal warming is where the prosperous countries are supposed to donate Billions of dollars to the less prosperous countries. Its called taking from those who work for a living and giving it to those who don't. I wouldn't mind giving a little to those countries if they were willing to keep their folks from coming here. Once they get here, they continue to want us to support them again. They don't want that fishing rod to learn how to fish, they want us to fish for them and give our catches to them so they can sit on their lazy asses and work at destroying this once great country.
methinks you're 150 years late on that one, but even stopping it now would be an improvement.
I uncovered something very strange and wondered if any of you experienced this before. I clicked on a link that the ghostofdiogense posted that took me to a YouTube video on chemtrails. After watching it I clicked on a related video where I found some comments by a FredFlinstone. It freaked me out. What are the odds that someone came up with the same screen name, all one word, with two caps?
Any thoughts? I know many of are paranoid here, but...
If you wanted exclusivity, you might have tried Pearl Slaghoople (Wilma Flintstone's mother) for a handle instead. That or Sam Slagheap.
I was thinking it was some sinister NSA thing going on.
Mentioning chemtrails... in my opinion this is the BEST rant so far.
This guy needs his own TV show. He's a natural...
I play this three times a day...it always makes me smile.... I'm not laughing AT him, I love his delivery...
and I love it when the camera pans out and you see four "strikes" all in formation all in a row above his head.
it's a masterliece. (fake you)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDy_OHeRpk#t=756
I can control the food I purchase.
I cannot control what the .gov sprays in the sky
Seriously. That guy needs to get a grip.
oh "Fake"you MR down arrow, you can't appreciate the humour in that clip? YOU must be one of the fluoridated idiots. Hahahahaha
Go stuff your gullet with your FAKE organic Greek Salad....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDy_OHeRpk#t=756
It's called the Law of Large Numbers. In a large enough sample size, all sorts of oddities emerge. I once spent four days wandering around Manhattan, encountering one "once in a lifetime" experience after another.
Lee County Florida is plagued with mosquitos. Insecticide abatement is suspended, as normal, for the winter. But there hasn't yet been a even a mild frost to kill them off.
Everythings fine, just keep shitting where you eat, nevermind the taste.
Thanks.
Now I'm hungry.
Merry Christmas Bitchez....Neo-Cons get their way and it'll be 100,000,000 Celsius outside.
Pray for peace and a space rock hitting____________(insert evil entity here).
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Effects/effects7.shtml
"Yeah, but it's a dry heat" !!
Merry Christmas one and all, particularly to all my old time buds and you know who you are, may we all find our gold and silver tragically lost along with our guns in those horrrible boating accidents. and for those of us lost in action, milliondollarbonus, francis sawyer (psycho), etc. Happy New Year
Fuck yea. I love it. Outside now... about 65 degrees.
Fuck snow.
I live in the great white north. I have seen 69 winters. Guess what? I've seen this before, it's called weather, and weather is anything but predictable.
If you want to talk about doing something about pollution, I'm right there with you. But, if you think you can control the weather, you are the greater fool.
Here I am, fucking on deck in S. Central Pa.
BLAME ME! I bought a very nice down jacket and now all it does is hang in the closet....It's ALL my fault!.... extremely sad face...
The map is missing one of the key factors in record warm North Eastern USA weather. Off of Greenland east, west & south sits a huge pool of ice cold fresh water, floating on top of the saltier sea waters. This mass of cold water is slowing the current that takes warm salty sea waters located just off of Iceland and lets it sink deep into the depths to drive the ocean current system, typically warm gluf stream water would flow up off of Iceland then sink due to heavy salt content, making it heavy. Instead, this sinking is slowed down by cold fresh water at teh surface. Since the warm salty water can't sink fast enough, it slows down and build into a huge warm pool of water off of the entire N.E. Coast of the USA.
This very warm feature, combined with El Nino are producing record heat in New England, and record storms in the British Isles. The more Greenland melts, the large the cold pool off Greenland, the slower the North Atlantic currents, the more warm water of New England, the bigger the storms in the UK.
All this continues, with or without El Nino. When in the future,the cold waters finally cease to flow off of Greenland and temperatures begin balance out the warm and cold pools, you will not want to be around to see what that results in.
Wait , I thought ZH towed the line on no MM warming?
Nah, all those scientists couldnt be right
Hee, hee, hee....
Climate change or not, burn coal to generate electricity in areas that have massive forests. We get electricity, and the trees get to eat.
People bitch when it's too cold, when they get too much snow, and now if it's too fucking warm.
People just like to bitch. In the grand scheme of things, the human species simply does not matter. It's just a blip on the time scale of the life of a star, like the sun, which has a lifetime of about 8-10 billion years. The Earth will be around long after we're gone.
Humans like to think they matter, but they don't on a universal scale.
UMMM....who cares.....and records they're talking about are what 80-90yrs?? that's like a nan-second in Earth Time....
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/weather/first-winter-storm-of-season-to-sp...
Isn't this what happens when the poles reversing?
Putin is kickng ass in global warring and warming
http://news.yahoo.com/russia-warming-2-5-times-quicker-global-average-11...
Russia warming '2.5 times quicker' than global average: ministryBurn baby burn...
And don't say you were not warned....
And not forgetting the voice of climate science, putting it most bluntly, James Hansen called Paris, simply, “bullshit.”
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/25/climate-terror-from-paris-could-e...