White Christmas outlook not too good

We didn't just break temperature records over the weekend -- we obliterated them.

On Saturday, the Cape airport hit 71°F, breaking the previous record of 65° from 1991. Sunday also surpassed the record by 6 degrees: we hit 70° and the previous record was 64° from 1984.

The biggest record to fall, though, was the low temperature on Saturday: we only dropped to 63°. On every previous Dec. 12th, the temperature had dropped to 51° or lower. So the low temperature was 12 degrees higher than ever before for that date!

On caveat is that the official records for Cape Girardeau don't go back nearly as far as other cities, but it's still incredible how our December heat wave obliterated records by such wide margins.

Although colder weather is poised to arrive for this weekend, the medium range outlook points to another round of above-average temperatures for next week across the entire Lower 48.

As a result, the prospects for a White Christmas appear to be somewhere between slim and none.