1-1-2026...Happy 250th; what a celebration that will be this July 4th. I happened to be in Woodward, OK, on the bicentennial, and WOW, what a fireworks display they had. On the weather, not much to add over yesterday. This December was the warmest in the station's short history. The mean temperature in December exceeded the freezing point for the first time. The year 2025 came in as the 4th warmest, with 2021 still holding the honor of warmest.

So much for the idea of La Niņa bringing more snow and cold to the Plains states; it hasn't held true so far this season, and January is starting out with more of the same, with 50s and 60s for highs over the first week of January.

Have the Tempest station you can see in the west camera linked on the front navigation bar again. The issue I was seeing may be fixed; it was coming in a couple degrees warm on high temps but looked normal yesterday. They use an algorithm to adjust and think it was off with our low sun angle being overemphasized on strength, so I put in a request to have it checked. Yesterday it looked better, so it's back on the front page. If it's still acting up and gets removed again, you can find it under the links tab. Looks like the fog and mist have lifted locally as we approach sunrise. There were areas of dense ice fog last night as shown with the frozen tree limbs.