Washington Posts Its Coolest August In 25 Years; Andes Under Feet Of Snow; Russian Ship Stuck In Arctic Sea Ice; + CME Has Arrived
The U.S. set 76 new monthly cold temperature records during the final week of August, vs just the one for heat.
Washington Posts Its Coolest August In 25 Years
Washington, D.C. just logged its coolest August since 2000.
The monthly mean came in at 75.8F (24.3C), which is 3.6F (2C) below the modern average. It was also the driest August on record with only 0.2 inches (5 mm) of rain.
The Washington Post keenly notes that the chilliest August on record was in 1927 with a mean of 70F (21.1C), but what they leave out is that Aug 2025 beats some impressive historical benchmarks. It was colder than August 1872 — 153 years ago, for example.
The cool wasn’t confined to the capital either.
The chart below shows much of the eastern and central United States running below average last month, bucking mainstream storytelling:
