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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 >

TOP INDIVIDUAL DAYS - MAY
LAKE CHARLES
 

Warmest May Highs
Lake Charles
1895-2026

t1 100 5/30/1911
t1 100 5/31/1911
t1 100 5/22/1915
4 99 5/21/2005
t5 97 many times

 

Coolest May Lows
Lake Charles
1895-2026

1 40 5/1/1908
2 41 5/2/1908
3 42 5/4/2013
t4 45 5/2/1925
t4 45 5/3/1929
t4 45 5/3/2013
t4 45 5/15/2014
t8 46 many times

 

Wettest May Days
Lake Charles
1895-2026

1 15.67 5/16/1980
2 12.49 5/17/2021
3 5.53 5/30/1979
4 5.49 5/3/2017
5 5.20 5/1/2016
6 5.00 5/28/1915
7 4.88 5/10/2013
8 4.82 5/20/1983
9 4.71 5/29/1929
10 4.68 5/28/2014

 


Warmest & Coolest is temperature in degrees Fahrenheit
Wettest is rainfall in inches