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Winter's First Half Dried Out Much of the Mississippi Basin
Tuesday, January 20, 2026 • 2 PM
As we approach the midpoint of the 2025-26 meteorological winter season (December-January-February), the drying influence from a warm December is showing up in the greater Mississippi River basin. December 2025 ranked as the fifth-warmest December on record for the contiguous United States.

