The winter is expected in central Europe with record temperatures that mark the warmest Christmas in Belgium and the Netherlands since records and the second warmest in Luxembourg, with highs between 11 and 15 degrees Celsius throughout the region .
Belgium woke up today with sunshine and the highest temperature of 13.4 degrees, recorded a 26 December since records began in 1901, according to the Royal Meteorological Institute (IRM).
According to the MRI picks up the newspaper "Le Soir", this temperature is equal to the previous record in 1974, but is expected to rise throughout the day.
In the Netherlands, the Christmas celebrations this year were the warmest since 1906, with 14 degrees recorded in the Hilversum (southeast of Amsterdam) on and surpass the record of 1997, when the maximum reached 12.8 degrees ,
This day, December 26, was also the warmest in the Netherlands and exceeds the 1974 record, according to data collected by the string "us".
At this time of year temperatures around five degrees lower in the Netherlands and to a degree during the night, but this year they have remained stable at 13 degrees.
Christmas in Luxembourg has also been particularly smooth with the second highest temperature since records with 11 degrees Celsius, only surpassed by 1997, which reached 11.7 degrees, recorded by the newspaper "Le Quotidien". EFE