Looking Back at the Weather Records Set During the Fall of 2025

The start of the meteorological winter this week makes it a good time to look back at what the past fall brought to the U.S. What cities saw unseasonably hot weather? What about precipitation levels? Here is a look back at the records that fell during the fall of 2025.

Fall of 2025 Was a Scorcher for Millions

The meteorological fall of 2025, encompassing the months of September, October, and November, brought a myriad of interesting weather conditions across the country. Extreme heat was the story for much of the southern and western U.S. over these few months. Several cities notched the hottest fall season on record. Most of these records went back at least 65 years, speaking to the rarity of this year's heat.

The bulk of the record-breaking communities were located in Texas. Some of the cities that saw the hottest fall on the record books in the Southwest included Abilene, Texas; Lubbock, Texas; and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Head up to the Pacific Northwest, Spokane, Washington, also noted its hottest fall on record, as extreme heat was the norm for the western U.S.