ORIGIN: https://www.yourweather.co.uk/news/
A warm start to winter helped lift 2025 toward the top of the list of the warmest years on record for the contiguous United States. Last year also made its mark with numerous billion-dollar weather and climate disasters.
Firefighters in California battling a blaze last September in Klamath National Forest.The U.S. had an average temperature of 37.8 Degrees in December, more than 5 degrees above the 1901-2000 average, to rank as the fifth-warmest first month of meteorological winter on record. The warmth was most pronounced in the west, with nine states recording their warmest December on record.
️ 2025 was the fourth-warmest year on record for the U.S. For the first time since 2015, no hurricanes made landfall in the U.S. or its territories during 2025. Check our Annual U.S. Temperature and Precipitation Analysis to learn more. ️ https://t.co/rnmgzN6crA pic.twitter.com/pTCi90M0Kx
— NOAA NCEI (@NOAANCEI) January 13, 2026
Utah had the biggest departure from normal, just over 11 degrees above average. Wyoming was 11 degrees warmer than normal. Colorado was just over 10 degrees warmer than average in December.


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