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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 >

APRIL TOP TENS
LAKE CHARLES
 

10 Warmest April's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 74.6 1967
2 72.8 2011
3 72.5 2006
4 72.1 1999
5 72.0 1929
6 71.9 1927
7 71.8 1954
t8 71.8 1965
t8 71.8 2001
10 71.7 1948

 

10 Coolest April's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 62.9 1928
2 63.2 1899
3 63.4 1913
4 63.4 1983
5 63.7 1997
6 63.7 2007
7 64.0 1901
8 64.5 1973
9 64.5 1961
10 64.7 1898

 

10 Wettest April's
Lake Charles
1895-2025
 

1 15.30 1940
2 13.71 1957
3 13.18 2015
4 12.32 1914
5 12.24 1924
6 11.73 2019
7 11.43 1926
8 10.95 1973
9 10.49 2023
10 10.19 1905

 

10 Driest April's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 0.11 2010
2 0.38 1931
3 0.40 1999
4 0.47 1987
5 0.52 1978
6 0.59 2022
7 0.64 1963
8 0.72 2025
t9 0.85 1910
t9 0.85 2014

 


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