The following is a list of weather events that occurred on Earth in the year 2025. These are several weather events which had a significant impact were blizzards, cold waves, droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods, tornadoes, and tropical cyclones.

Deadliest events

Deadliest meteorological events during 2025
Rank Event Date(s) Deaths Refs
1 January 2025 Southern California wildfires January 7 – January 31 29 [1]
2 2025 Pekalongan flood and landslide January 20 25 [2]
3 February 2025 North American storm complex February 15 - February 16 14+ [3]
4 Cyclone Dikeledi December 30, 2024 – January 18, 2025 9+ [citation needed]
5 Deer Lodge, Tennessee EF2 tornado February 6 2 [4]
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Types

The following listed different types of special weather conditions worldwide.

Cold snaps and winter storms

Heat waves and droughts

Global average surface temperatures, shown for each January since 1940, reached a record high temperature in January 2025 despite the Earth being in a La Niña (regional cooling) phase.[5]

Tornadoes


Tropical and subtropical cyclones

Cyclone Dikeledi, a powerful Intense Tropical Cyclone (Category 3 on the SSHWS) that battered Madagascar and Mozambique as a Tropical Cyclone (Category 2 on the SSHWS).

Extratropical cyclones and European windstorms

Storm Éowyn, a powerful European windstorm that impacted Ireland and the United Kingdom with 135 miles per hour winds.

Wildfires

The January 2025 Southern California wildfires were a series of wildfires in California, mostly around the Los Angeles area, that caused at least 27 deaths and destroyed or damaged at least 17,711 structures.[1]

Timeline

This is a timeline of weather events during 2025.

January

February

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Butler, Gavin (10 January 2025). "California's fire death toll doubles as chaos grips the city". BBC. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
  2. ^ "Landslides and flash floods on Indonesia's Java island leave 17 dead and 8 missing". AP News. 21 January 2025. Retrieved 22 January 2025.
  3. ^ Sanderson, Emily (February 16, 2025). "Beshear: Widespread flooding in Kentucky leads to multiple fatalities, water rescues". WLWT. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  4. ^ WBIR Staff (February 7, 2025). "Morgan County EMA: 2 dead, 3 injured after tornado touchdown near Deer Lodge, Sunbright". WBIR. Retrieved February 7, 2025.
  5. ^ "Copernicus: January 2025 was the warmest on record globally, despite an emerging La Niña". The Copernicus Programm. February 2025. Archived from the original on 10 February 2025. Click on "Download data" button and extract January values.
Global weather by year
Preceded by
2024
Weather of
2025
Succeeded by
2026
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