Santa may need to pack shorts this year

WE are set for one of the warmest Christmas Days on record — with temperatures 26C higher than last year.

Met Éireann is forecasting highs of 12C tomorrow. Temperatures already hit 13.3C this week at Shannon Airport.

The weather service said earlier December 25 records were not available — but a temperature topping 13C would verge on record-breaking, as according to Britain’s Met Office the North’s top Christmas Day temperature was only 13C, in Carnlough, Co Antrim, in 1977 and Belfast in 1988.