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Areas of Severe Thunderstorms and Excessive Rainfall Today

Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of damaging wind gusts and some hail are expected this afternoon and evening from the Upper Ohio River Valley into the Northeast, and from the Appalachians into the Mid-Atlantic States. Excessive rainfall from heavy thunderstorms may produce areas of flash flooding from southern New Mexico into the western and northern Gulf Coast into Wednesday. 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