Mashable: Residents in about half of the U.S. may experience their warmest Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in memory this year, as an El Nio-fueled December "blowtorch" weather pattern shows few signs of relenting.
Already this month, a whopping 5,608 warm temperature records had been set for the month so far, compared to just 188 cold temperature records for the same period.
In other words, there have been 30 warm temperature records (record daily high, record high overnight low temperature) for every...