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Weather: Mostly sunny, with a high near 57. Northwest wind 9 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Tuesday Night: Patchy frost after 1 a.m. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 34. Northwest wind 7 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
- 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:
The Cold-Weather Shelter known as the Sheltering Tree will open tonight: The shelter opens at Church on the Rock at 2200 North State Street in Bunnell as the overnight temperature is expected to fall to 40 or below. It will open from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. The shelter is open to the homeless and to the nearly-homeless: anyone who is struggling to pay a utility bill or lacks heat or shelter and needs a safe, secure place for the night. The shelter will serve dinner and breakfast. Call 386-437-3258, extension 105 for more information. Flagler County Transportation offers free bus rides from pick up points in the county, starting at 3 p.m., at the following locations and times:
- Dollar General at Publix Town Center, 3:30 p.m.
- Near the McDonald’s at Old Kings Road South and State Road 100, 4 p.m.
- Dollar Tree by Carrabba’s and Walmart, 4:30 p.m.
- Palm Coast Main Branch Library, 4:45 p.m.
Also: - Dollar General at County Road 305 and Canal Avenue in Daytona North, 4 p.m.
- Bunnell Free Clinic, 4:30 p.m.
- First United Methodist Church in Bunnell, 4:30 p.m.
The shelter is run by volunteers of the Sheltering Tree, a non-profit under the umbrella of the Flagler County Family Assistance Center, is a non-denominational civic organization. The Sheltering Tree is in need of donations. See the most needed items here, and to contribute cash, donate here or go to the Donate button at this page.
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
Wadsworth Park Reopening: Flagler County commissioners host the reopening of Wadsworth park and its rebuilt skateboard park, at 10 a.m., at 2200 Moody Boulevard in Flagler Beach. The park had been closed for about three weeks to allow 60 percent of the park equipment, such as ramps and grind rails to be replaced. Additionally, concrete repairs were made, new chain-link fence was installed, and the adjacent bathroom has been repainted, for $240,000.
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center: Last night for the lights, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Palm Coast’s Central Park, with 57 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.
Here’s a heartwarming one at the end of a cold year (and I don;t mean the weather):
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January 2026
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Stetson University Concert Choir in Concert with Orlando Philharmonic
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Stetson University Concert Choir in Concert with Orlando Philharmonic
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
The nights, the nights, especially the first one I spent with Alex! The way that a lover undresses, removes his clothes the first night you spend together, is a clue, a definite clue, to your whole future relationship with him, you know. Alex unclothed himself unconsciously gracefully, as if before no one in a-room made of windows, and then, unclothed—correction: clothed in a god’s perfection, his naked body!-he went from window to window, all the way round the bedroom, drawing the curtains together so that daybreak beginning wouldn’t wake us early from the sleep after love, which is a heavenly sleep that shouldn’t be broken early. Then came to rest in a god’s perfection beside me: reached up to turn off the light: I reached up and turned it back on!
–From Tennessee Williams’s The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (1962).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Does anyone really watch the Kenndy Ctr Honors? Does anyone care about the ratings? What America cares about is being safe. Having a closed border. Now, out of all the presidents before him, TRUMP had the greatest first year in HISTORY. He has single handedly took the USA from the cusp of disaster, to a booming economy, lower taxes, lower gas prices. TRUMP has traveled the world to make peace! His tariffs have the USA in a health position to cut the deficet. Hate the man if you so choose… then tell him what a great job he has done. WAIT Ttil you see your paychecks, in the month of January…. Wait to see what your money can buy.Watch & see more Americans with good paying jobs, now that TRUMP has deported millions, with million more to go! America dodged a bullet his week in Minn. Had HARRIS won, this Somali FRAUDE would have been swept under the donkey! 9 Billion!!! That’s BILLION with a B…..Like the man that brought them here, BARACK
Pierre Tristam says
There’s no safety from Trump or his goons, Dennis, and making deserts is an odd way of making peace.
Laurel says
Hey, no, Dennis, the binoculars go the other way!
Skibum says
No Dennis, I beg to differ with your “peace” fantasy. The convicted felon pedophile in the WH has not “traveled the world to make peace”… he traveled to FIFA to FAKE peace! His peace efforts, LOL, are faker than his tan!
Jim says
Russia fires hundreds of missiles and drones into Kyiv as Zelenskyy comes to Mar A Lago to see the president. Putin calls Trump and says 91 drones were fired at his residence but all were shot down. This upsets Trump (the Putin part) and Trump bad-mouths Ukraine for being mean (no mention of the innocent civilians killed by Russia). It doesn’t seem to penetrate his pea-brain that Russia can’t stop Ukraine from hitting it’s planes, ships, oil facilities and tankers, tanks and trucks as well as his troops in the field. Yet, somehow, they fired 91 drones at Putin’s home and didn’t score a single hit! Nor has Russia provided any “evidence” that this occurred. You’d think 91 drones with explosives would leave some debris or something. And, if I were Trump (and I thank God that I’m not), I’d be concerned that my massive intelligence agencies failed to be aware of such an attack before, during and after it occurred. But what we have here is an idiot masquerading as president who has the reasoning power of an ant.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Trump would confine himself to hosting the Kennedy Center awards and scheduling MMA fights at the White House and leave the rest of us alone? Three more years…. But, on the bright side, mid-terms are coming and it’s beginning to look like the Republicans will take one of the worst beatings in history. Thanksgiving 2026 might be best one ever!!!
Skibum says
Jim, I agree with you. This coming midterm election, it will be the Dems shouting the word “BIGLY” in victory and contempt for the wanna-be dictator who’s going to have his panties, or diaper, in a wad for the remainder of his lame duck term after losing control of Congress!!!
Laurel says
Just remember, Republicans turn out to vote.
Sherry says
From Robert Reich on how trump promotes “HATE”:
Friends,
If one word could summarize the ideology of the second Trump regime, it would be “hate.”
Consider, for example, Paul Ingrassia — who started off as Trump’s White House liaison to the Justice Department and then liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, before Trump nominated him in May to run the White House’s Office of Special Counsel.
Politico is out today with an expose of Ingrassia — noteworthy because it so clearly illustrates Trump’s priorities when it comes to personnel.
Before his nomination, Ingrassia reportedly told a group of fellow Republicans that “I do have a Nazi streak in me from time to time, I will admit it.”
He has written about former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: “Never trust a chinaman or Indian … NEVER.”
He has said Black people behave like “victims” because “that’s their natural state … You can’t change them,” adding: “Proof: all of Africa is a shithole, and will always be that way.”
He has urged that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell.” Using an Italian slur for Black people, he wrote: “No moulignon holidays … From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth,” adding: “Every single one needs to be eviscerated.”
He has written: “We need competent white men in positions of leadership. … The founding fathers were wrong that all men are created equal … We need to reject that part of our heritage.”
He has backed martial law. He’s referred to 2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley as an “insufferable bitch.” He called Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel a “psyop,” (which stands for psychological operation).
He has ties to avowed antisemite Nick Fuentes. Soon after he made the “Nazi” comment, Ingrassia attended a rally for Fuentes.
Ingrassia’s overt bigotry was too much even for Senate Republicans, who pushed back against his nomination to lead the Office of Special Counsel— resulting in Trump pulling the nomination in November.
But Ingrassia wasn’t booted from the Trump administration. In fact, after pulling his nomination, Trump invited Ingrassia to meet with him at the White House and offered him another administration post — Deputy General Counsel of the General Services Administration. He is now Acting General Counsel, supervising more than one hundred lawyers.
Trump doesn’t mind Ingrassia’s bigotry because Ingrassia is a Trump loyalist who for years has praised Trump on X and Substack. (After Trump reposted more than 100 of Igrassia’s fawning Substacks, Ingrassia called himself “Trump’s favorite writer.”)
In Trump world, fawning loyalty always trumps hateful bigotry.
In contrast to Trump’s graciousness toward Ingrassia, the Trump regime has been trying to rid America of people seeking to stop the spread of online hate speech.
On Thursday, a federal judge in New York temporarily blocked Trump from detaining Imran Ahmed, the founder and chief executive of a nonprofit organization that works to stop the spread of online hate and disinformation, whom the Trump regime accused of promoting the censoring of “American viewpoints.”
Ahmed — who is in the United States legally, with a green card and an American wife and child — is one of five people barred by the Trump regime because they’ve been scrutinizing hate speech on social media platforms such as Elon Musk’s X.
Musk had unsuccessfully tried to sue Ahmed’s research group in 2023 when it documented a rise in hate speech on X after Musk bought the platform, then called Twitter. When Trump’s State Department barred Ahmed from America, Musk posted “This is so great.”
So there we have it, friends. Hateful bigotry is fine inside the Trump regime as long as the hateful bigots are loyal to Trump.
Meanwhile, the regime is trying to rid America of people fighting hateful bigotry.
Hate is the defining ideology of the Trump regime.
Sherry says
trump’s racism even extends to the Netherlands. . . this from the AP:
MARGRATEN, Netherlands (AP) — Ever since a U.S. military cemetery in the southern Netherlands removed two displays recognizing Black troops who helped to liberate Europe from the Nazis, visitors have filled the guestbook with objections.
Sometime in the spring, the American Battle Monuments Commission, the U.S. government agency responsible for maintaining memorial sites outside of the United States, removed the panels from the visitors center at the American Cemetery in Margraten, the final resting place for roughly 8,300 U.S. soldiers, set in rolling hills near the border with Belgium and Germany.
The move came after U.S. President Donald Trump issued a series of executive orders ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs. “Our country will be woke no longer,” Trump said in an address to Congress in March.
The removal, carried out without public explanation, has angered Dutch officials, the families of U.S. soldiers and the local residents who honor the American sacrifice by caring for the graves.
Egregious!
Sherry says
The latest polls show the clear “Majority” of those polled “Disapprove” of the job trump is doing:
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating