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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 >

AUGUST TOP TENS
LAKE CHARLES
 

10 Warmest August's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 89.2 2023
2 86.9 2011
3 86.0 1902
4 86.0 1951
5 85.8 1999
6 85.7 2010
7 85.7 1995
8 85.6 2024
9 85.2 2019
10 84.5 1998

 

10 Coolest August's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 79.5 1940
2 79.6 1973
3 79.7 1992
4 80.0 1965
5 80.1 1967
6 80.3 1960
7 80.5 1904
8 80.6 1918
9 80.7 1974
t10 80.7 1911
t10 80.7 1931

 

10 Wettest August's
Lake Charles
1895-2025
 

1 23.57 2017
2 17.36 1962
3 15.74 2014
4 15.05 1915
5 14.70 2016
6 14.56 1940
7 11.52 1977
8 10.68 1913
9 10.63 1910
10 10.13 1916

 

10 Driest August's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 Trace 1999
2 0.77 1976
3 0.94 1990
4 1.00 1951
5 1.11 2023
6 1.17 1902
7 1.29 2000
8 1.36 1952
9 1.55 1980
10 1.73 1924

 


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