Posted on October 7th, 2025

Apollo News Snippets – October 2025

The Arctic region has its second warmest August on record while the Arctic Sea ice extent was the seventh lowest on record for August. North American experienced its fourth warmest August and seventh warmest summer on record. United Kingdom recorded its warmest summer on record. In mid-August, severe floods affected northern Pakistan, causing flash floods and landslides that lead to widespread damage. Japan’s August temperature tied as the second warmest August on record and on Aug. 5, it set an all-time maximum temperature record. August 2025 awas an exceptionally wet month for Hong Kong, which received more than double the normal August rainfall. Winter 2025 was the third warmest record on record for the southern hemisphere. The Antarctic’s August Sea ice extent was the third smallest on record. (Image Credit: NOAA Global Climate Report)
  • The NOAA Global Climate Change Report for October 2025 has been released by the National Centers for Environmental Information and reveals further proof that global global climate change remains a concern. August 2025 was the third warmest August globally since records began in 1850. The monthly temperature anomaly was +1.07°C (+1.93°F), ranking just below the warmest Augusts of 2023 and 2024 (+1.27°C / +2.29°F). August 2025 marks the 47th consecutive August with global temperatures at least nominally above average. The 10 warmest Augusts have all occurred since 2015. The global ocean-only surface temperature for August 2025 was also the third highest on record for August, with a temperature 0.91°C (1.64°F) higher than the 20th Century average. Only Augusts of 2023 and 2024 were warmer. The global land-only surface temperature was 1.41°C (2.54°F) higher than the average and ranked as the fourth highest for August in the 176-year record. In August, temperatures were above average across much of the globe’s surface, particularly over most ocean areas and parts of every continent. The most significant warm temperature departures were observed in the Northern Hemisphere’s northern latitudes, as well as central Antarctica. Record-high August temperatures covered 6.3% of the world’s surface. A record cold August temperature was observed in a small area of the southern Pacific Ocean, encompassing less than 1.0% of the Earth’s surface. Looking at regional temperatures, the Arctic had a near-record warm August with a temperature 1.93°C (3.47°F) higher than average. Only August of 2023 was warmer. The Caribbean region and Asia experienced their third warmest August, while North America recorded its fourth warmest. Europe saw its seventh warmest August, while South America had its 10th warmest. Oceania and the Antarctic region were warmer-than-average, however, their temperatures did not rank in the top 10 warmest Augusts.
  • Fall means crisp leaves, apple cider and apple pie, hayrack rides, bonfires, s’mores, and pumpkin flavored everything. It also means October is almost here and so is Halloween. GIS has played an important role with the Halloween holiday. GIS can analyze place names to find locations with “frightful” words like “dead” or “ghost” and map them globally or locally for trick-or-treating. GIS can determine the most efficient trick-or-treating routes in a neighborhood or town by analyzing factors like candy distributors per block, route efficiency, and housing density. GIS can be used to create interactive maps and digital experiences, such as online hunts for Halloween-themed decor or “treat maps” showing where candy is being given out. There’s already an online collection of spooky stories and monster maps and all the fan favorite Halloween horror classics since the dawn of time can be found on Esri’s Geography of Horror map, which guides you through the locations of the top-rated horror movies. From Tokyo to Los Angeles, your favorite kill-count kings (or queens) are mapped. Esri’s Halloween Cemetery Map allows people to tour cemeteries of some of the most famous actors, writers, musicians, and authors to exist. Unearth celebrity burial sites including John Wilkes Booth, Bonnie and Clyde, James Dean, John Lennon, William Shakespeare, and Frank Sinatra. Originally titled “You Can Run, You Can Hide: The Epidemiology and Statistical Mechanics of Zombies,” these scientific and mathematical principles were quickly developed into an interactive map by Matt Bierbaum where visitors simply select their hometown, or any point of origin, and watch the zombie virus spread across the United States in real time, just in time for Halloween.

Brock Adam McCarty
Map Wizard
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brock@apollomapping.com

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