DECATUR, Ill. (WAND) - If you're keeping score, we're just beyond the Winter solstice.  On Monday, December 22, we will gain an additional 2 seconds of available daylight.  Hello vitamin D!   Sadly, clouds may shroud the setting sun and a touch of drizzle may break out toward the Indiana border.  Nonetheless, daylight will be getting longer and longer; gaining 37 seconds per day by the end of this month.   

The longer daylight does has some impact on high temperatures.   The biggest impact though comes from the source region of our next air mass.   As the December days wind down toward Christmas, a major push of air from the Deep South and Desert Southwest will bust down the door.  The end result will be the warmest Christmas ever, at least in recorded history.  It will feel more like October instead of late December.  Tell Santa you want a new pair of shorts to wear outside on Christmas Day!  It will be amazingly warm.  So, obviously the string of no white Christmas' will continue.  The last one being 2017.   

Happy holidays, stay safe and stay weather-aware.  

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