Boise broke two temperature records in the days leading up to Christmas, and forecasters with the National Weather Service’s local office said another could be tied on Christmas Day as unseasonably warm weather continues.
Boise set a new temperature record on Tuesday, when it hit 61 degrees, breaking the previous record of 57, which was from 1885. The area also saw a new record of 60 on Christmas Eve, breaking the record of 59, also from 1885.
Jay Breidenbach, a Boise meteorologist for the National Weather Service, told the Idaho Statesman that temps had tied the 1885 record on Wednesday before the sun even came up. He called the recent days “a pretty amazing run of warm weather.”…