It was the year that started with a shiver and ended with a gust. 2025 will likely be remembered best for what happened in January when the Augusta area saw something we don’t get very often: measurable snow. We picked up nearly three inches of the white stuff, putting us almost an inch above our annual average. It was a cold start to a year that statistically kept things pretty mild.
Overall, 2025 ran slightly cooler than our 30-year “normal.” Our average temperature was about a degree below average. We hit our coldest point on January 23rd when we dropped to 16 degrees. And while summer is always hot in Augusta, we managed to avoid the worst of it. We only hit triple digits one time all year, topping out at 101 degrees in July.
But the bigger story might be what we didn’t see: rain. We finished the year with a significant deficit. The total rainfall was just over 38 inches. That is nearly six inches shy of where we should be. Our wettest day was May 12th, when we saw two inches of rain.
And 2025 certainly made a dramatic exit. The highest wind gust of the entire year didn’t happen during a hurricane or a summer thunderstorm. It happened just a few days ago on December 29th when gusts hit 52 miles per hour at Bush Field…