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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 >

JANUARY TOP TENS
LAKE CHARLES
 

10 Warmest January's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

1 63.3 1950
2 61.9 1952
3 59.5 2017
4 59.3 2012
5 58.9 1921
6 58.9 1911
7 58.9 1923
8 58.7 1927
9 58.5 1937
10 58.0 1933

 

10 Coolest January's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

1 39.8 1940
2 42.8 1978
3 43.0 1977
4 44.1 1948
5 44.3 1979
6 44.6 1918
t7 45.0 1912
t7 45.0 1985
9 45.9 1963
10 46.1 1970

 

10 Wettest January's
Lake Charles
1895-2026
 

1 14.29 1991
2 12.69 1974
3 12.32 1899
4 11.38 2013
5 11.10 1915
6 11.08 1992
7 10.95 1897
8 10.87 2024
9 10.01 1998
10 9.44 1946

 

10 Driest January's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

1 0.37 1928
2 0.41 2009
3 0.47 1902
4 0.50 1913
5 0.78 1971
6 0.83 1914
7 0.96 1957
8 1.13 1969
9 1.14 1942
10 1.20 1907

 


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