Your official 2025 weather year in review
Upper row: Tornado in Champaign County, Satellite image of Hurricane Melissa. Lower row: Thunderstorm in Champaign County, Snowy sidewalk in Urbana. Upper row: Andrew Pritchard, IPM News and National Weather Service, Lower row: Andrew Pritchard and Reginald Hardwick, IPM News
According to the scientists who produce Weather Realness, 2025 was a year of extremes and calmness. University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Department of Climate, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science professors Stephen Nesbitt and Jeff Frame talked with Nutrien meteorologist Andrew Pritchard about the biggest weather stories of the year.
- Southern California wildfires
- Gulf Coast winter storm
- March Tornado outbreak
- Illinois dust storm
- St. Louis mile-wide tornado
- North Dakota EF5 tornado
- Central Texas flood kills at least 130
- Central Illinois drought worsens
- Hurricane Melissa leaves destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica
- Lake-effect snow from Chicago to Champaign
