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Weather: Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Friday Night: Partly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock, 2 to 5 p.m., Picnic Shelter behind the Hammock Community Center at 79 Mala Compra Road, Palm Coast. It’s a free event. Bring your Acoustic stringed Instrument (no amplifiers), and a folding chair and join other local amateur musicians for a jam session. Audiences and singers are also welcome. A “Jam Circle” format is where musicians sit around the circle. Each musician in turn gets to call out a song and musical key, and then lead the rest in singing/playing. Then it’s on to the next person in the circle. Depending upon the song, the musicians may take turns playing/improvising a verse and a chorus. It’s lots of Fun! Folks who just want to watch or sing generally sit on the periphery or next to their musician partner. This is a monthly event on the 4th Friday of every month
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Nightly from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 55 lighted displays you can enjoy with a leisurely stroll around the pond in the park. Admission to Fantasy Lights is free, but donations to support Rotary’s service work are gladly accepted. Holiday music will pipe through the speaker system throughout the park, Santa’s Village, which has several elf houses for the kids to explore, will be open, with Santa’s Merry Train Ride nightly (weather permitting), and Santa will be there every Sunday night until Christmas, plus snow on weekends! On certain nights, live musical performances will be held on the stage.
Notably: A friend wrote of Notably’s Christmas edition: “This reminds me of Christmas of 1968, when we got home from Midnight Mass in time to find out whether Anders, Lovell, and Borman would re-emerge from the other side of the moon. Through our energy-inefficient jalousie windows, right next to the TV, we could see the moon itself while the astronauts did their Genesis reading. It was a very big deal. And on the cover of Time Magazine, either that same or the next week, was a celebration of human genius and its capability — J.S. Bach.” That was back in the day when culture still mattered to Time and America: Zubin Mehta, the conductor, had been on the cover in January that year, John Kenneth Galbraith was on it just four weeks later, the Jeoffrey Ballet was on it in mid-March, John Updike was in April (he’d just outed oral sex with Couples), and yes, Bach was the final cover of the year (two weeks after Arafat was on the cover), that year of upheaval and mass killings like no other in post-war America. The astronauts’ message from around the Moon had closed with “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and voice; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.” And so on. Then came light? Not so fast, Genesis. This from this week’s Economist: “Satellite data show that, since the turn of the century, Earth’s albedo—the amount of incoming sunlight it reflects—has been dropping.” Global warming.
—P.T.
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December 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
The Bronx Wanderers at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center
‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy
Santa in Bunnell
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
For the full calendar, go here.
O.K. Houston. The moon is essentially gray, no color. Looks like plaster paris or sort of a grayish deep sand. We can see quite a bit of detail. The Sea of Fertility doesn’t stand out as well here as it does back on earth. There’s not as much contrast between that and the surrounding craters. The craters are all rounded off. There’s quite a few of them, some of them are newer. Many of them look like especially the round ones look like hit by meteorites or projectiles of some sort. Langrenus is quite a huge crater; it’s got a central cone to it. The walls of the crater are terraced, about six or seven different terraces on the way down.
–From James Lovell Jr.’s radio messages to Earth during the Moon pass, Dec. 25, 1968 .
Pogo says
@Welcome to the long night
US nerve center to combat China and Russia global propaganda shut down by GOP opposition
The State Department’s Global Engagement Center called out Moscow and Beijing for disinformation efforts. But the pro-Trump GOP said it became politicized.
Josh Meyer Josh Meyer USA TODAY
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/12/26/gop-opposition-shutters-global-engagement-center/77239404007/
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