National and Local 2014 Christmas Weather Review
Nationally this year, the weather was relatively quiet on Christmas Day itself, but tornadoes on the days leading up to it made the news, as did Hawaii's White Christmas.
NEW! This year I am starting a couple of new traditions to document the weather on Christmas. First is a snapshot of the AccuWeather.com "Map Wall" on Christmas Day:
Next, a snapshot of all of the webcams I run on Christmas Morning (in State College unless noted with an alternate number --
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And finally, a short film of what the weather looked like (no audio) on Christmas Morning, via my Dropcam webcams:
Locally here in State College, PA, Christmas Day turned out to be unusually warm - with the warmest "low" temperature since 2005 and a high temperature that was close to the record. Save some interesting fog, my drive from State College to York, PA, was snowless and uneventful.
PREVIOUS YEARS: In 2010, my Mom down in North Carolina got her second White Christmas in a row (something I've never seen here in Pennsylvania during my 15-year residence!) That storm moved on to the Northeast as the Boxing Day Blizzard, but somehow managed to mostly avoid me in State College. 2009 was fairly uneventful, and I wrote in my blog at Christmas 2008 about My Past White Christmases (1981, 1989, 1993 in NC & 2002 in PA): "Looking back at my blog entries... in 2007, we had rain, and plenty of it -- with considerable local flooding on December 23rd. In 2006, it actually snowed on Christmas, when I was in Milesburg, PA at my parents-in-law's house, but didn't accumulate. We had just missed it - I took a photo where the ground was white 2 days before Christmas but a heat wave with rain afterwards melted it all before Christmas. And way back in 2005, my first year of blogging for AccuWeather.com, we had a little freezing rain Christmas morning."
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