OTTAWA – It’s not only an unseasonably warm Christmas Eve in Ottawa, it could be record-breaking.

While it still has to be confirmed by Environment Canada, the temperature climbed to 10 degrees C overnight, breaking the Christmas Eve record of 7.7 degrees, set in 1996.

Environment Canada has even issued a Christmas special weather statement, calling for a ‘quiet, mild Christmas Day, with good travel conditions.’

The forecast calls for a sunny day, with some cloudy periods and a high of 14 degrees C. The temperature will then dip down overnight to two degrees C under partly cloudy skies.

The Christmas Day forecast is cooler, though still unseasonably warm at four degrees C. We could see some wet snow Boxing Day, mixed with rain.

Ottawa’s forecast:

Today: Christmas Eve.

Sunny with cloudy periods.

Gusty southwest wind to 50 kmh.

A morning high of 14.

Tonight: A few clouds.

Wind diminishing.

Low 2.

Friday: Christmas Day.

A mix of sun and cloud.

High 4.

Saturday: Boxing Day

Rain and wet snow in the afternoon.

High 1.

Sunday: Morning snow ending then becoming mainly sunny.

Gusty northeast wind.

High 2.

Monday: Mainly sunny.

High minus 8.

Tuesday: Very windy with wet snow.

High 2.

Wednesday: Cloudy with wet snow.

High 2.

Thursday: New Year’s Eve.

Cloudy.

High 1.