--- 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: 2026-02-22T13:35:00.095Z 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 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=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # No White Christmas Coming for U.S. East Coast  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 22, 2015 3:13 PM UTC  NEW YORK, USA - DECEMBER 03: Decorations are seen ahead of the Christmas on December 03, 2015 in New York City, United States. A Norway spruce decorated with more over than 45 thousands lightbulbs attracts attention. Many tourists waiting in long queue to take photos with Christmas Tree. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) NEW YORK, USA - DECEMBER 03: Decorations are seen ahead of the Christmas on December 03, 2015 in New York City, United States. A Norway spruce decorated with more over than 45 thousands lightbulbs attracts attention. Many tourists waiting in long queue to take photos with Christmas Tree. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)Anadolu Agency—Getty Images  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 22, 2015 3:13 PM UTC People living on the East Coast should stop dreaming of a white Christmas: capping off an unusually warm December, meteorologists say the Northeast is about to experience the warmest Christmas Eve on record. [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.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4158506/east-coast-warm-weather-christmas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4158506/east-coast-warm-weather-christmas/"},"headline":"No White Christmas Coming for U.S. East Coast","datePublished":"2015-12-22T15:13:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:35:00.095Z","description":"It may be the warmest Christmas Eve on record in many places","url":"https://time.com/4158506/east-coast-warm-weather-christmas/","keywords":["weather"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltecf16a7da969f9f6/6988767dcd1bba82106fea4c/499833300.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltecf16a7da969f9f6/6988767dcd1bba82106fea4c/499833300.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Christmas decorations in New York","caption":"Christmas decorations in New York","creditText":"Anadolu Agency—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/weather/","name":"weather"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4158506/east-coast-warm-weather-christmas/","name":"No White Christmas Coming for U.S. East Coast"}}]}] ```