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Last month, Houston logged the warmest December on record since 1933.
According to ABC13 News, Houston's average monthly temperature for December 2021 registered at a record-breaking 67.8 degrees.
"The warmest official December was back in 1933, and we were about five degrees warmer than that," John Nielsen-Gammon, meteorologist and Professor of Meteorology at Texas A&M University, told ABC 13 News. "And more than 10 degrees above the 20th century average for December."
Space City Weather reports that at 67.8 degrees, last month shattered the record set in December 1933 by 3.4 degrees.
Nielsen-Gammon said that La Nina, rising temperatures and luck contributed to balmy days for much of last month.
The warm weather allowed families to spend more time outdoors last December, possibly mitigating the spread of the COVID-19 omicron variant, which spreads more easily indoors.
It's been a polarizing year for weather as December's recording breaking high temperatures comes in the same year as the unprecedented extreme winter cold event of last February remains a fresh memory among many Houstonians.
"The cold was one of the coldest weeks on record, if not the coldest week in some places, and then we follow it up with the warmest December on record," Nielsen-Gammon said, according to ABC 13 News.