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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 >

DECEMBER TOP TENS
LAKE CHARLES
 

10 Warmest December's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 64.4 2021
2 63.7 1933
3 62.4 1984
4 61.7 1971
5 61.4 1922
6 60.0 2015
7 59.9 1956
8 59.9 1923
9 59.5 1970
10 58.6 2024

 

10 Coolest December's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 45.0 1989
2 46.1 1963
3 46.6 2000
4 47.3 1909
5 48.1 1983
6 48.4 1905
7 48.9 1898
8 49.1 1914
t9 49.4 1895
t9 49.4 1913
t9 49.4 1985

 

10 Wettest December's
Lake Charles
1895-2025
 

1 15.65 1911
2 13.27 1967
3 12.91 1932
4 12.67 1923
5 12.33 1914
6 12.05 2016
7 11.68 1941
8 11.63 1927
9 10.76 1982
10 10.43 1956

 

10 Driest December's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 0.98 2019
2 2.02 2000
3 2.03 2014
4 2.05 2013
5 2.07 1975
6 2.09 1925
t7 2.10 1908
t7 2.10 1919
9 2.11 1898
t10 2.15 1910
t10 2.15 1989

 


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