--- title: Warm Weather: No White Christmas for American East Coast description: Meteorologists say the Northeast is about to experience the warmest Christmas Eve on record. canonical: https://time.com/4158506/east-coast-warm-weather-christmas/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-22T15:13:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:40:30.668Z article:section: Science og:title: No White Christmas Coming for U.S. East Coast og:description: It may be the warmest Christmas Eve on record in many places og:url: https://time.com/4158506/east-coast-warm-weather-christmas/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltecf16a7da969f9f6/6988767dcd1bba82106fea4c/499833300.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Christmas decorations in New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: No White Christmas Coming for U.S. East Coast twitter:description: It may be the warmest Christmas Eve on record in many places twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltecf16a7da969f9f6/6988767dcd1bba82106fea4c/499833300.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # No White Christmas Coming for U.S. East Coast > Sponsored content. 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[According to Accuweather.com](http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/christmas-eve-record-warmth-ny/54313801), Christmas Eve “will feel more like an early autumn or spring day” in many places, with highs possibly in the 50s Fahrenheit in Maine up to the 70s in the mid-Atlantic and the lower 80s down in the Southeast. This would be 15 to 30 degrees above average for each of these locations. “There is a high probability for record-setting warmth up and down the entire Eastern Seaboard from Florida to Maine \[on Christmas Eve\],” said AccuWeather Meteorologist Rob Englund. The warm weather recently has come from two strong concurrent climate phenomena: the Arctic Oscillation trapping cold air in the North and an [exceptionally strong occurrence of El Niño](http://time.com/3996227/el-nino-forecast/), [TIME’s Justin Worland reports](http://time.com/4147776/warm-east-coast-weather/). “Either one of these patterns would warm temperatures on its own. Together, they make for an especially warm winter,” he writes. “You’re not eclipsing these records by a degree or two as you normally break records,” said Sean Sublette, a meteorologist at Climate Central. “These are very large breaks in the records.” ## Transcript If you are enjoying the unusually warm winter this holiday season, you have a strong El Nino effect. The phenomenon occurs when trade winds don't push as much warm water toward Asia and Australia, and as a result the portion of the Pacific Ocean near the US is hotter than usual. Similar El Nino conditions were recorded in 1997, which also saw an unusually warm winter. A strong El Nino year doesn't mean hotter temps for everyone though. Now. Much of the southeast has had and is predicted to have colder than average temperatures. What worries many experts though are the extreme swings that seem to accompany stong El Ninos across the world, such as draughts, floods, and wildfires. 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