What Kind of Weather Record Articles and Yearly Summaries Are on Extreme Weather Watch?

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Extreme Weather Watch publishes two main types of editorial content: annual weather-record roundups (for example, a 2025 records review published January 9, 2026) and a blog of additional weather-record articles. Both are reachable from the homepage, which links to "More articles from our blog." The site describes itself as founded in 2021 with the goal of offering an easy interface for viewing historical weather records, so the articles function as commentary layered on top of its record data rather than as a separate news operation.

Yearly weather record summaries

The clearest example of the site's annual format is its 2025 review, first published January 9, 2026. The framing is deliberately casual — the excerpt notes that "another year has gone by, nothing really happened, but we can still talk about the weather" — before promising a review of records broken during 2025.

What this tells you about the format:

  • Timing: The annual summary for a given year appears in early January of the following year, based on the 2025 edition's January 9, 2026 publication date.
  • Scope: It covers weather records broken during that calendar year, not a general news recap.
  • Tone: Conversational rather than formal or academic.

If you want a quick retrospective of which records fell in a given year, this is the page type to look for. If you need the underlying station-level numbers rather than a narrative summary, the site's record pages by state, province, and country are the more direct route.

Blog articles

Beyond the annual roundup, the homepage points to "More articles from our blog," indicating an ongoing article stream rather than a single yearly post. The site does not list individual blog topics in the available material, so the reliable way to see current subjects is to follow that blog link from the homepage.

How to reach the articles

  1. Go to the Extreme Weather Watch homepage.
  2. Look for the annual records section (the 2025 review is the current example) to read the year-in-review post.
  3. Follow the "More articles from our blog" link to browse the wider article list.

Expected result: you land on either the yearly summary or the blog index, from which individual posts open.

Where the articles sit in the wider site

The editorial content is one part of a site built mainly around historical record lookup. The same homepage organizes:

Content type Examples from the site
Yearly summaries and blog 2025 Weather Records; blog articles
Records by place U.S. states, Canadian provinces, Australian states, and countries including the UK, Germany, France, and Japan-region entries such as China
Comparisons Country comparison, city comparison, U.S. state capital comparison, 100 largest U.S. metros, 25 largest Canadian metros
Extremes and averages U.S. state all-time highs, all-time lows, average temperatures and rain
Tools Temperature converter and other calculators

This matters for deciding whether the articles are worth your time: they are a reading layer on top of a lookup tool, so they suit someone who wants context or a year-end recap, while someone who needs a specific record for a specific place should go straight to the state, province, or country pages.

Practical considerations

  • Currency: The most recent annual summary referenced is for 2025, published January 2026, and the site's copyright line runs 2021–2026, so the annual format is active.
  • No pricing or login information appears in the available material, so nothing here should be read as confirming free access or an account requirement.
  • Language: The site content is in English.

If your goal is a yearly overview of broken records, start with the annual summary; if you want ongoing record commentary, use the blog link; if you want the data itself, skip both and use the record pages for your state, province, or country.