{"id":789,"date":"2025-12-04T08:27:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/?p=789"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T13:27:45","slug":"short-range-outlook-for-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/short-range-outlook-for-december-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-Range Outlook for December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our cold start to December is set to continue over the next week, including chances for frozen precipitation in parts of the state on Friday morning. By mid-month, we should warm up and dry out as <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/blog\/2025\/11\/winter-outlook-2025-26-a-seasonal-repeat-in-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this winter&#8217;s La Ni\u00f1a pattern<\/a> takes over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The graphic below summarizes the current weather outlook for the rest of December. <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/SROutlook_2025Dec.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download it as a PDF<\/a> or view it on our <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/outlooks\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outlooks archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/SROutlook_2025Dec-1024x791.png\" alt=\"The Short-Range Outlook for North Carolina for December 4 to 31, 2025\" class=\"wp-image-785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/SROutlook_2025Dec-1024x791.png 1024w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/SROutlook_2025Dec-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/SROutlook_2025Dec-768x593.png 768w, https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/SROutlook_2025Dec.png 1056w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Our cold start to December is set to continue over the next week, including chances for frozen precipitation in parts of the state on Friday morning. By mid-month, we should warm up and dry out as <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/blog\/2025\/11\/winter-outlook-2025-26-a-seasonal-repeat-in-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this winter's La Ni\u00f1a pattern<\/a> takes over.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>The graphic below summarizes the current weather outlook for the rest of December. <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/SROutlook_2025Dec.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download it as a PDF<\/a> or view it on our <a href=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/outlooks\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">outlooks archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:image {\"id\":785,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\",\"align\":\"center\"} -->\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img src=\"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/SROutlook_2025Dec-1024x791.png\" alt=\"The Short-Range Outlook for North Carolina for December 4 to 31, 2025\" class=\"wp-image-785\" \/><\/figure>\n<!-- \/wp:image -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our cold start to December is set to continue over the next week, including chances for frozen precipitation in parts of the state on Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"coauthors":[2],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outlooks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climate.ncsu.edu\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}