Top 5 fascinating weather moments of 2025

The twelvemonth 2025 has been filled with plentifulness of ups and downs successful the world of weather, but not without immoderate absorbing moments caught connected camera during our around-the-clock coverage.

Exclusive FOX Weather footage has captured immoderate of the astir notable moments of 2025.

Snow angel fun

At fig 5 connected the list, we person Brandy Campbell reporting from a winter wonderland successful Elizabeth City, North Carolina, wherever communities saw the imaginable for the biggest snowstorm successful 60 years, but fell abbreviated successful February.

The country isn’t utilized to overmuch snowfall, arsenic Campbell interviewed a father-daughter duo, Michael and Quinn, who were enjoying the caller snow arsenic the country was coated amid wintertime weather.

"This doesn’t hap precise often astir here, from what radical are talking about," Michael explained arsenic helium enjoyed the snow. "We are precise excited."

Campbell couldn’t defy indulging successful wintertime activities arsenic she laic retired and created a textbook signifier of a snowfall angel with her chap bystanders. Campbell captured the axenic excitement of the begetter and daughter.

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Chicago walloped by historical snow

Coming successful astatine fig four, we person Robert Ray capturing a unsocial infinitesimal during his sum of the historical snowfall that blanketed Chicago, wrapping up connected Nov. 29.

Ray reports from a Christmas marketplace wherever radical were indulging successful the holiday festivities, drinking lukewarm vino and different tasty treats. All this arsenic Chicago experienced its snowiest November time connected record.

Ray captured the infinitesimal a ample chunk of snowfall fell from the roof, landing connected a woman’s head. Luckily, she was OK, but this shows however snowfall accumulation roseate rapidly during the historic event.

North Carolina location collapse

At fig 3 connected our list, we person a overmuch much utmost infinitesimal captured connected camera amid dangerous, dense flooding successful North Carolina, which caused galore homes to collapse.

At slightest 15 homes collapsed connected the North Carolina Outer Banks successful 1 period aft back-to-back hurricanes and coastal storms heavy eroded beaches.

FOX Weather Correspondent Katie Byrne was connected the country successful Buxton, North Carolina, covering the melodramatic lawsuit arsenic aggravated winds, waves, tides and rising oversea levels caused important erosion of the soil wherever homes are located.

Byrne captured the unexpected infinitesimal erstwhile a location yet gave mode nether the dense flooding, crashing down and sending waves and debris onto the shore.

According to the National Park Service, 27 homes person collapsed connected the shoreline since 2020.

Shattering expectations amid Hurricane Melissa

At fig 2 connected the list, we person a shocking infinitesimal successful which the solid doors of a location successful St. Ann Parish, Jamaica, failed nether aggravated winds.

FOX Weather Correspondent Robert Ray traveled to Jamaica to screen Hurricane Melissa, which made landfall adjacent New Hope arsenic a Category 5 hurricane with winds exceeding 185 mph. That makes Melissa the third-strongest Atlantic hurricane connected record, and is tied for the strongest land-falling hurricane connected record.

Eventually, a record-breaking wind velocity was observed astatine 252 mph, making it the strongest hurricane upwind ever recorded, and you tin spot wherefore arsenic the solid doors to a location are abruptly ripped away, sending shards of solid astir the residence.

Winds roar outside, lashing the trees successful the inheritance of the footage. Luckily, Ray and his squad were capable to relocate safely to different portion of the house.

Hurricane Melissa is the archetypal landfall of a Category 5 hurricane since Hurricane Dorian struck the northwestern Bahamas connected Sept. 1, 2019.

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Tornado sum montage

Coming successful astatine fig one, we person unthinkable tornado footage captured by FOX Weather Exclusive Storm Tracker Brandon Copic.

Copic has traveled passim the U.S., capturing immoderate of the astir utmost upwind events to deed communities.

In his extended sum of tornadoes this year, determination was a historical outbreak successful North Dakota.

More than 20 tornadoes were reported connected Sept. 14 crossed 200 miles betwixt Mobridge, South Dakota, and Minot, North Dakota.

Forecasters with the National Weather Service successful Bismarck and Grand Forks said that this tempest officially broke the state’s yearly tornado record. The erstwhile grounds was 61 tornadoes successful 1999.

Copic is filmed getting arsenic adjacent arsenic imaginable to the deadly twisters for the champion exclusive footage. Along with tempest chaser Corey Gerken, helium continues to screen the worst tornadoes and supply adept analysis.