It's over. Now wait for the next one. I hate this time of year for many reasons. Winter is one of those reasons. I've never been able to understand celebrating a new year. Never. What the hell is that nonsense all about? It's all quite stupid, like many things people do, that mystify me just as much as celebrating a new year.
No snow, not all that cold, some wind, some sun, and then it will be gone, gone by noon tomorrow.
It broke the record for the date, as well as for the entire month. That's something. Warm today but a taste of winter is what we will have, Sunday and Monday and maybe Tuesday morning. No ice, no snow, no rain, no sleet, no freezing rain. No to all of that. But moderately cold. For a few days. We had perceptible humidity this morning, and some morning fog a few days ago and even some heavy dew. Otherwise, very dry, still. I trust that someday it will rain.
We will remain more than ordinarily warm right into the new year. A slight cooling this weekend, Sunday and then Monday and then temps climb again.
Yesterday we topped the highest temperature ever recorded in December here. And that record might fall again on Christmas Day. Of course, evenings and mornings are still cool, but our high temperatures are way above normal for the season. And no rain in sight. It's looks like this pattern will hold right into 2026. I guess I don't mind the record highs. Better by far than the brutal cold we usually have.
This week, one record high temp after another. A sweaty Christmas is a real possibility. I found a Christmas special Saturday that I really enjoyed, and it was on local 48.1, ME TV. That was just what I needed. I'm a bit tired of the usual things. I've had the standard Christmas fare up to my hair, so to speak. Year after year after year. It does become tiresome. It does the body good, to lighten up and have a laugh.
And that's OK with me. I do see signs of Christmas though, in the form of careless drivers, speeders, red light and stop sign runners, distracted drivers, and so forth. Road rage here and there. I'm avoiding most of this seasonal stuff to the extent I can. What makes it look not a lot like Christmas are the record high temps. I want rain for Christmas. But I'm more likely to get a face full of blowing dirt.
We have a string of record highs coming up. Tomorrow will be the first in that series. We might have a record high for Christmas. The usual pattern of bone-chilling cold just before or just after Christmas might be off the table this year. It has been a strange year in many ways. 2026 will be even stranger. I'm sure of that.
Maybe record heat soon. Could be a hot Christmas. Or at least warmer than normal by a large margin. I find this weather salubrious, to say the least, being such a hater of winter weather. BUT, it is very, very, dry, and that is NOT good! Unfortunately, any precipitation we receive at this time of year is likely to be in the form of snow, sleet, freezing rain. I can do without that stuff, dry or not.
I did that several days ago. It's been so long since I've had the flu, or even a cold, I can't recall the last time. Was it maybe 2016. Maybe 2006? Not in the last eight years, certainly. I'm not afraid of vaccines. I keep expecting to see Polio make a comeback. I had all the Polio vaccines in my childhood, as they became available. Very nice weather continues, with highs much above normal for the season. Too dry though. Someone gifted me with a fruitcake and how good it is. I was not expecting that. A gift from family. The best kind. We might have some record high temps before Christmas but I'm worried about what might follow. Sooner or later, one of those stupid winter things will probably strike. So far they've been scooting off to the east and staying well north.
It looks as though we will be sailing right into Christmas with temps well above average. But it will remain very dry. That is the only problem.
Old scams and new scams Christmas music at the gym. It seems to be good to sweat by. For pumping iron. Fine weather continues. Only minor temperature variations. A very gentle roller coaster so far, in terms of our temperature variations. May it remain like that! Surely global warming can deliver a year with no significant wintery conditions, as far south as I am. Surely.
