February 13, 2025 Thursday Winter Weather
Potential Record Cold from Polar Vortex Next Week
February 2025 was the 56th-warmest February in the 132-year national record (1895–2026), at 34.7°F against a 1991–2020 normal of 35.6°F (-0.9°F).
February 2025 was the 56th-wettest February in the 132-year national record (1895–2026), at 2.2in against a 1991–2020 normal of 2.1in (+0.0in).
NOAA/NCEI Climate at a Glance, contiguous United States. This is the observed record for the month, not a score of anything said in this piece — the forecast ledger begins 2026-08-17 and cannot reach earlier posts.
The icon of the next week on most weather dot gov forecast pages for cities in the Midwest, Plains, and Great Lakes will be Cold — an open domain photograph from Manhattan in the 1960s of a woman in a mini-skirt trudging through snow.
The ICON model from Germany is a global system at high resolution and it consistently has the best performing 2-meter temperatures in the near-term. It performed very well for January’s major polar vortex outbreak.
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