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This year, Christmas was less about snow angels and spiked hot chocolate around the fireplace than it was about shorts and outdoor sports. With temps climbing into the mid-60s on Friday, the day felt anything but festive: anyone out there hoping for a white Christmas was certainly dreaming. Instead, the city took on a springlike atmosphere, as warm weather-lovers shed layers and went running in the park, surfing in the Rockaways and gaping at new blooms of roses and other flowers, whom mild temperatures have tricked into thinking it's already April. You had to see it to believe it, so in case you were at home in Wisconsin with the fam or chilling on a beach in Mexico, we've compiled some of the web's craziest snapshots from this freaky holiday season.
It was so warm that...
People went ice skating in tank tops...
It's so unbelievably warm in New York City that I ice skated in a tank pic.twitter.com/LPSEjseQj7
— ME (@WoahMitchie) December 28, 2015
...and T-shirts and shorts
New York City makes history with warmest Christmas Eve on record: https://t.co/GZaXhzOM92 pic.twitter.com/hsvFoIwcu6
— World News Tonight (@WNTonight) December 24, 2015
Dog walkers hit Prospect Park in warm-weather duds
Shorts and t-shirts on show in New York - as Christmas temperatures hit 22 degrees https://t.co/ln2MOC9pKK pic.twitter.com/3xwY0wSbEP
— TheJournal.ie (@thejournal_ie) December 27, 2015
Surfers hung ten in the Rockaways
How Warm Was it in #NYC this #Christmas? Warm Enough to Go #Surfing in the #Rockaways https://t.co/4yq9K1ZW6g #warmweather
— Rocco Vertuccio (@RoccoNY1) December 25, 2015
Roses, cherry blossoms and daffodils bloomed months ahead of time
December Heat Tricks Flowers Into Putting On Spring Display https://t.co/KN5IHfGPuN @nytimes pic.twitter.com/a6EulvDu18
— Dennis Dimick (@ddimick) December 25, 2015
Tourists busted out the hotpants and miniskirts
VIDEO: Shorts weather in New York: In the movies, New York is always cold and covered in snow at Christmas - b... https://t.co/zQEyav1gtd
— Martin Callan (@martincallan) December 24, 2015
Central Park rock-perchers donned bare arms and legs...
This Christmas is officially the warmest on record for New York City https://t.co/w4BZq9XQeS pic.twitter.com/PYPb8JBrzY
— amNewYork (@amNewYork) December 25, 2015
...as did the park's joggers
New York City sees record warmth on Christmas Eve https://t.co/kbyraWuIeK pic.twitter.com/2AG10XQMmp
— Agence France-Presse (@AFP) December 24, 2015
And volleyball hardbodies took to the courts donning Santa hats but not much else. Merry Christmas to all, and praise the lord!
On a Tropical Christmas in New York, ... - #Bangladesh #Bryant_Park #Christmas_Eve - https://t.co/YrHkTRXA0t pic.twitter.com/lvb5KG9RM8
— shopall (@Shopall3) December 25, 2015