If you’re wanting a white Christmas, you’ll have to travel somewhere other than Selma. In fact, if you want any kind of cold weather, Alabama won’t be the place to be Sunday.

However, if you want perfect weather, it’ll be hard to find a better spot.

The state will experience unseasonably high temperatures this weekend and Selma will have a high of 77 on Christmas Day. The highest temperature ever recorded in Selma in December is 79 degrees, according to Jason Holmes with the National Weather Service in Birmingham.

“We will have very warm temperatures.  We have high pressure starting to build back up from the southeast,” Holmes said. “The good news with that is we have a small chance of rain on Saturday, but it’s only about 20 percent. It looks like dry conditions, partly cloudy skies.”

The high temperature is forecast to be 74 degrees on Saturday.

Holmes said when temperatures get this warm, the weather service typically begins to worry about severe weather, but the high pressure is causing the warm weather in this particular instance. The chance of rain on both Saturday and Sunday is very low.

“Tuscaloosa hit a high of 80 this time last year and we did have some severe weather last Christmas,” Holmes said.

“Thankfully, we’re not seeing the same setup here, but nonetheless we will see some very warm temperatures. Seventy-seven degrees is definitely above normal for this time of the year.”

Anyone traveling to the northwest will want to keep their eyes on a Christmas Day storm that will bring blizzard conditions to Wyoming, Montana and North and South Dakota and severe storms to Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma.

The southeast is expected to remain dry throughout the weekend.