Pleasant weather and sunny skies expected for Christmas, with the highest temperature forecast to reach 19°C on Christmas day, with the lowest at 11°C on Boxing Day, while a moderate wind is forecast for Christmas Day, the Met Office has said.

It said that this Christmas is expected to be among the warmest on record, as temperatures are forecast to fall just a few degrees short of reaching the highest ever temperature recorded locally on Christmas Day; 23.6°C in 2009.

Christmas morning will be sunny as the clouds dotting our skies today are expected to break by tomorrow, the Met Office said.

Cooler temperatures during the weekend will be coupled with partly cloudy skies, with a slight possibility of rain showers forecast for the evening of Saturday 26th December and isolated showers forecast for Sunday 27th of December.

Tomorrow, the Met Office said that we can expect a moderate wind to blow from the west-southwest, while a rather strong to strong wind is forecast to blow from a southwest direction, becoming a northwesterly wind, on Boxing Day.

Moderate west-northwesterly winds will continue to blow on Sunday, becoming rather strong northwesterly winds by the evening., it said.

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