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Critical Fire Weather and Severe Thunderstorm Threats This Week

Gusty winds and low relative humidity will contribute to critical fire weather Monday over parts of the central and southern High Plains. Scattered to widespread severe thunderstorms may bring damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes Monday through Thursday over the lower Mississippi River Valley and southern Plains into the Midwest and Ohio Valley. Read More >

ANNUAL TOP TENS
LAKE CHARLES
 

10 Warmest Years
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 71.5 2024
2 71.2 1927
3 71.1 2012
4 71.1 2023
5 71.0 2017
6 71.0 1933
7 70.6 2016
8 70.4 2018
9 70.4 2019
10 70.2 2025

 

10 Coolest Years
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 65.7 1940
2 66.0 1912
3 66.1 1979
4 66.4 1976
5 66.5 1968
6 66.6 1983
7 66.8 1978
8 66.8 1960
9 66.9 1964
10 67.1 1969

 

10 Wettest Years
Lake Charles
1895-2025
 

1 85.14 2002
2 79.40 1923
3 75.85 2017
4 75.79 1979
5 75.24 1900
6 75.03 1973
7 74.87 2016
8 73.55 2009
9 72.83 1940
10 72.74 1914

 

10 Driest Years
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 30.08 1954
2 31.66 1939
3 34.80 1965
4 35.85 2010
5 36.60 1917
t6 37.38 1951
t6 37.38 1999
8 38.64 2011
9 39.00 1948
10 39.37 1956

 


Warmest & Coolest represents temperature in degrees Fahrenheit
Temperature ties, if possible, have been broken by going to ten thousandths of a degree
Wettest & Driest represents rainfall in inches