Map of the U.S. notable weather and climate events in 2025.

European Union scientists say 2025 was the world's third-warmest year on record:: Brussels, Belgium::3, 2026:: Carlo Buontempo, Director of Copernicus Climate Change Service"The data we have now at the beginning of January indicate that 2025 has been one of the three warmest years on record,

With an annual average temperature of 72.6 degrees, 2025 ended up tied with 2023 for the second-hottest year on record in San Antonio.

Increasing greenhouse gas buildup and exceptionally high ocean temperatures drove the significantly hot conditions, the new report said.

In 2022, the continental United States experienced its third hottest July since 1895, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, while 20 states saw one of their 10 hottest days in the same month. In 2021, July marked the hottest month on record worldwide.

January was America's coldest in over three decades, but it wasn't enough to keep the planet from setting another monthly global warmth record, according to just released data. January shivering: January 2025 was the Lower 48's chilliest January since 1988 ...