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Areas of Heavy to Excessive Rainfall and Hot Temperatures This Week

Heavy to excessive rainfall could bring areas of flooding at times Monday through Thursday across parts of the central Plains into the Midwest as well as southern Arizona and New Mexico. Hot temperatures and high humidity will continue across much of east Texas into the lower and mid-Mississippi Valley through at least midweek. Read More >

APRIL TOP TENS
LAKE CHARLES
 

10 Warmest April's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

1 74.6 1967
2 72.8 2011
3 72.6 2026
4 72.5 2006
5 72.1 1999
6 72.0 1929
7 71.9 1927
t8 71.8 1954
t8 71.8 1965
t8 71.8 2001

 

10 Coolest April's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

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
1895-2026
 

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
1895-2026

 

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