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Climate Impact Company U.S. Daily Report
Issued: Tuesday September 9, 2025
Highlight: The August 2025 and JUN/JUL/AUG 2025 U.S. climate review.
Fig. 1-2: The mean temperature anomalies and total precipitation percentiles for August 2025 yields hot weather in the West, Southern Texas, and Florida while the Carolinas and vicinity were cool. Impressive Ohio Valley to New England dryness.
Fig. 3-4: The state temperature and precipitation rankings for August 2025 yields MUCH BELOW normal in the Carolinas and MUCH ABOVE normal for the West Coast, Southwest, and Florida. Record dryness was observed in Kentucky, Ohio, and Vermont.
Fig. 5-6: The state temperature and precipitation rankings for JUN/JUL/AUG 2025 produced MUCH ABOVE normal temperature across the West and Southwest plus Florida and much of the Northeast while very dry climate occurred in Washington plus Arizona and the Northeast U.S. including record dry in New Hampshire.
Discussion: August 2025 brought a cool surprise to the East U.S. including the 7th coolest in the 131-year record for South Carolina. Meanwhile the West, Southwest, and far South U.S. were MUCH ABOVE normal during August 2025. The dryness in the Missouri Valley to New England was profound featuring record dry for Kentucky, Ohio, and Vermont. Georgia was excessive wet during August. The Arizona heat observed in August was the second hottest on record.
Meteorological summer (JUN/JUL/AUG) 2025 was MUCH ABOVE normal temperature across all the West including to-5 all-time in Washington and Arizona. Parts of the East were MUCH ABOVE normal temperature including top-10-all-time hot summers in Florida, Ohio, West Virginia, Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Nebraska and Iowa were MUCH WETTER than normal while New Hampshire observed their driest summer on record.