 7 January brought more strikes on Luzon installations.After a fueling rendezvous on 8 January, "Ticonderoga" sped north at night to get into position to blanket Japanese airfields in the Ryūkyūs during the Lingayen assault the following morning.However, foul weather, the bugaboo of TF 38 during the winter of 1944 and 1945, forced TG 38.3 to abandon the strikes on the Ryūkyū airfields and join TG 38.2 in pounding Formosa.