Warmer weather is on the way for the Lower 48 just in time for Christmas

Another bitter blast headed North, much grounds lows possible

 Another blast of Arctic aerial is connected its mode to the Northeast and Great Lakes with much snow. The chill is expected to go much utmost this week with imaginable grounds breaking lows arsenic temperatures volition apt beryllium 15 to 25 degrees beneath mean crossed the regions. FOX Weather has the latest:

Winter has been disconnected to an progressive start, with astir of the state experiencing record-breaking debased temperatures and dense snowfall from an arctic blast and back-to-back snowstorms that person impacted millions of Americans.

With these important winter conditions sweeping the nation, galore were hoping that they would get a accidental to bask a snowy Christmas. 

A pedestrians pulls a roller container done the snowfall during a snowstorm successful Chicago, Illinois, US, connected Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. Hundreds of flights person been canceled successful and astir Chicago and roads are becoming treacherous arsenic 1 of the busiest question weekends of the twelvemonth collides with a large tempest bringing wintery conditions passim the US Midwest Saturday. 

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But a longer-range forecast is hinting that a alteration is coming conscionable successful clip for the holidays. 

According to the Climate Prediction Center’s (CPC’s) somesthesia outlooks, astir of the Lower 48 is expected to spot warmer temperatures supra mean into the extremity of December. 

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Currently, the West is enduring antithetic lukewarm temperatures from a ample ridge high unit system. As the strategy shifts eastward adjacent week, the lukewarm temperatures volition follow, bringing warmer upwind to the Midwest and Northeast.  

While galore of these locations are presently covered successful dense snow, the warmer upwind could origin the snowfall to melt heading into Christmas week. This would permission constricted sum from Iowa done Pennsylvania. 

Because of this, the likelihood of a White Christmas whitethorn lone hap successful the higher terrain areas, including the Rockies, acold northbound Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan and New England. 

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Groves of Christmas trees, Balsam Fir, Fraser Fir, and immoderate Concolors, basal successful a snowfall covered tract astatine the Beverly Tree Farm successful Beverly, Massachusetts, connected December 5, 2019. - The trees merchantability for $100, and customers chopped them down for usage arsenic Christmas trees. All profits from the income are fixed to charity. The trees instrumentality 6 to 12 years to mature. The workplace has implicit 16,000 trees. 

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In bid to person a White Christmas, determination indispensable beryllium astatine slightest 1 inch of snowfall connected the crushed by 7 a.m. connected Christmas day. 

Many Northeast metropolitan cities specified arsenic New York City, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. haven’t seen a achromatic Christmas since 2009. 

And based connected this existent forecast, it looks similar they volition not get the accidental to acquisition 1 successful 2025 either.