North Texas Weather in 2025: A Year of Extremes
North Texas may have had a quieter weather year, but the state certainly did not. After monumental tragedy and unexpected weather twists and turns, here are some of North Texas’ most memorable weather days from 2025:
Snow and Freezing Temperatures
Early in 2025, North Texans rejoiced at the arrival of fluffy white snowflakes. Over 2 inches of snow fell Jan. 9 at DFW International Airport, the official climate location for the region.
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Every winter since 2019 has had at least one snow event, giving North Texans cause to hope that more flurries may be in our (near) future.
Photos: See the snow in Dallas-Fort Worth
The biggest temperature drop in a single day — a 42-degree fall — came a few days before the snow, on Jan. 5. The temperature fell consistently from 7 a.m. on, dropping from 67 all the way down to 25 degrees.
But despite the flurries and temperature fluctuations, early January actually didn’t include the coldest days of 2025. That title went to Feb. 18-21, when the temperature didn’t rise above freezing for almost 48 hours.
The coldest temperature of the year came on Feb. 20, when the low measured 12 degrees.
Mild Summer and Toasty Fall
Across the summer, Dallas-Fort Worth wasn’t as scorching as recent years have trained us to expect.
The monthly average highs for June, July and August were at least half a degree below normal. This summer also recorded only seven days in the triple digits, significantly lower than the record-breaking recent years.
Most of those sparse 100-degree days arrived at the end of July or in mid-August, with the last instance on Sept. 4. The hottest day of the year came in at 104 degrees on July 31.
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But once the heat came, it stayed. The fall months were all hotter than normal, with the gap between usual and observed temperatures getting bigger as the months went on. November’s average temperature was 73.4 degrees, almost seven degrees warmer than usual.
Rain
Total rainfall in 2025 is just above normal for Dallas-Fort Worth, at 38.3 inches of precipitation. But it hasn’t come down evenly.
Spring and fall are usually North Texas’s wettest seasons, but this year they’ve been both a bit wet and a bit dry. Several months, like March, September and December have been uncommonly dry, while April and November had unusually strong downpours.
Measurable precipitation fell on 83 days at DFW Airport in 2025 (as of Dec. 24). The wettest of them was Nov. 20, when almost 4 inches of water came down.
The longest stretch of days with no rain was from Sept. 25 to Oct. 17 — 23 days of continued dry skies in total.
Hill Country Flooding
The most impactful weather event for North Texans this year didn’t take place in North Texas. Over 100 people lost their lives when devastating flooding struck the Texas Hill Country, leading state leaders to reevaluate weather preparedness and emergency response.
Among the victims were nearly 30 young girls and their counselors at Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp.
The flooding, which came in the early hours of July 4, was a confluence of weather patterns and geography. Storm clouds were stationary over the area for hours, dumping more water than usual for a summer thunderstorm. And once that rain fell, it traveled down the rocky and hilly terrain into the river system, instead of getting absorbed into the soil.
In two hours, the Guadalupe River rose over 30 feet.
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