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Critical Fire Weather and Severe Thunderstorm Threats This Week

Gusty winds and low relative humidity will contribute to critical fire weather Monday over parts of the central and southern High Plains. Scattered to widespread severe thunderstorms may bring damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes Monday through Thursday over the lower Mississippi River Valley and southern Plains into the Midwest and Ohio Valley. Read More >

OCTOBER TOP TENS
LAKE CHARLES
 

10 Warmest October's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 76.4 1919
2 76.0 2004
3 75.5 1941
4 75.3 1947
5 74.8 1971
6 74.5 1931
7 74.2 1926
8 73.9 2021
9 73.7 1984
10 73.7 2025

 

10 Coolest October's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 61.9 1976
2 63.4 1952
3 63.5 1917
4 64.7 1908
5 65.1 1906
6 65.6 1980
7 65.7 1964
8 66.0 1895
9 66.1 1987
10 66.5 1943

 

10 Wettest October's
Lake Charles
1895-2025
 

1 21.44 2002
2 17.28 1970
3 16.17 1925
4 15.79 1919
5 14.96 2009
6 12.75 1985
7 12.22 1984
8 11.69 1918
9 11.15 1949
10 10.92 2006

 

10 Driest October's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 0.00 1908
t2 Trace 1924
t2 Trace 1952
t2 Trace 1963
5 0.08 1905
6 0.10 1914
7 0.18 1978
8 0.23 1983
9 0.27 2016
t10 0.30 1904
t10 0.30 1964

 


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