Unreasonably warm temperatures are going to linger as we roll through the Christmas holiday.

While the final days of December are looking to be more seasonable, Ed Shimon at the National Weather Service in Lincoln indicates the warm days we're experiencing could get us into the top 10 warmest months on record

Temperatures have been well above normal and are going to stay that way all the way through Christmas. Shimon says there will almost certainly not be a white Christmas this year

Looking to the new year, above-normal temperatures are being predicted for January with equal chances of above-or-below-normal precipitation.

We'll have more with Shimon about the trends of a white Christmas for central Illinois this weekend on WHOW.