Europe’s Mild Christmas and New Year to Ease Power Grid Stress

  • Region to stay unseasonably warm through first week of January
  • Temperatures in Nordics to remain icy with chance of snow

A Christmas market, outside the town hall in Paris, Dec. 21.

Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg
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Mild weather is expected to remain over most of Europe during the holidays, dimming the chances of a white Christmas but easing pressure on the region’s power grids.

Temperatures in Paris and Frankfurt are expected to be around 7 degrees Celsius warmer than seasonal norms on Friday, Maxar Technologies Inc. said in a report. The mild weather is expected to stay through the first week of January, it said.