This Christmas holiday saw the warmest temperatures ever recorded in Mountain Home as more than one daily high temperature record was broken.The week started far warmer than average with the daily temperature for late December expected at 45 degrees for a high and 25 for a low. Christmas Eve nearly broke the record from 1955 of 78 degrees with a high recorded in Mountain Home of 76. Christmas Day was 3 degrees warmer than the record from 1922 of 73 with a high recorded of 76 degrees. The Friday following Christmas continued the heat wave with a high of 78 recorded breaking the previous record of 77 from 1923.
Many locals took advantage of the warm weather by hosting Christmas cookouts, playing rounds of golf, visiting local parks and even taking boats out on the lakes.
The heat wave comes to an end Sunday night as a cold front slams into the Twin Lakes area plunging overnight temperatures into the 20s with Monday’s high not expected to break out of the mid 30s with cold northerly winds throughout day. The cold continues as the area will settle into average temperatures to greet 2026 on Thursday.
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