This fall was one of the hottest in recorded history.
2025 tied the record for the second-hottest fall ever reported at DFW International Airport, according to the National Weather Service’s Fort Worth office. It’s been a while since 1963 took the top spot, with an average high of 83.1 degrees. But 2005, 2016 and 2025 have all come extremely close, with an average high of 82.9 degrees.
A data note — meteorologists count seasons by months, instead of by solstices and equinoxes. So while the winter solstice is still a few weeks away, by weather standards, fall is already over.
Looking at the heat on a month-by-month level, the gap between normal and observed temperatures grew as autumn progressed. September was only about 2 degrees above normal, but October was around 5.5 degrees warmer than usual and November was almost 7 degrees over.
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November set some heat records, too. Nov. 15 was the hottest one ever recorded, at 89 degrees. Three days later, the metro area did it again, with the hottest Nov. 18 in the weather record at 87 degrees. Both days were more than 20 degrees above normal.
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Mid-November was on a roll and broke another type of record two days later: 3.95 inches of rain fell at DFW Airport, helping temperatures start to fall before Thanksgiving. A record-setting amount of rain also fell one day in October, with 3.1 inches reported on Oct. 24. Over half of all the rain this fall came down on those two days.
While the region did see some prolonged dry spells, Dallas-Fort Worth actually reported more rain than normal over the fall months, collecting 11.18 inches of water compared to the average of 9.62.
Heading into winter, the future is uncertain for North Texas. La Niña conditions are weakening in the Pacific Ocean, which has made it a little more difficult to anticipate just how temperature and precipitation trends will play out. For both metrics, the Climate Prediction Center forecasted “equal chances” of above or below normal conditions in North Texas.