Mesonet Ticker for December 23, 2025

                
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Flaming bells




THIS is Christmas weather? What are you nuts? No, not chestnuts...NUTS! I mean, I
like warm weather as much as the next guy (wait, the next guy is from Maine...the
OTHER next guy), but this is ridiculous. As we said in our last Ticker, this is
probably gonna top Christmas Day in 2021 as our warmest on record. Now that's
according to highs and lows averaged together across the state. As for the HOTTEST
Christmas Day, that was probably Christmas Day in 1955.



That's when we saw 17 of the 20 highest temperatures ever recorded on Christmas
dating back to the 1880s, including the top mark of 88F at both Guthrie and
Waynoka (the 3 oddballs were from 2021).

Oh yeah, remember Christmas Day in 2021? No, have a bit too much of Uncle Fred's
*special* eggnog?



Heck, we don't need to look at 2021 for records, for crying out loud! We're
setting them everyday NOW!









And tomorrow.



Wanna know why we shattered our record high minimum temp records whilst NW OK
was still in the freeze box? Well check out the dewpoint temps.



The actual air temperature can cool down to the dewpoint temperature, at which
point water vapor starts condensating and forming fog. As it condensates, heat
energy is released, keeping the air temps from dropping any further. So thank
that Gulf moisture that has surged northward for the warmth. Or curse it.

We'll see cold fronts from time to time to remind us it ain't actually April
yet, but don't pull those tobogga...tobbogga...sleds down from the attic just
yet.



Bah humbug, and chappie new year?

Gary McManus
State Climatologist
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climate Survey
gmcmanus@ou.edu

                

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