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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 >

APRIL TOP TENS
LAFAYETTE
 

10 Warmest April's
Lafayette
1893-2025

 

1 74.2 2017
2 74.0 2006
3 73.9 2011
4 73.4 1967
5 73.2 1893
6 73.1 1908
7 72.8 1894
8 72.6 1999
9 72.6 1963
10 72.5 1929

 

10 Coolest April's
Lafayette
1893-2025

 

1 62.9 1898
2 63.1 1983
3 63.4 1928
4 63.8 1993
5 64.2 1997
6 64.6 1931
7 64.8 2018
8 64.9 1952
9 64.9 1961
10 65.0 1980

 

10 Wettest April's
Lafayette
1893-2025
 

1 15.57 1979
2 11.95 1969
3 11.88 1993
4 11.51 1977
5 11.12 2015
6 10.32 1942
7 10.24 1955
8 10.02 1926
9 9.62 1940
10 8.95 1905

 

10 Driest April's
Lafayette
1893-2025

 

1 0.45 1987
2 0.48 1971
3 0.55 2010
4 0.59 1976
5 0.67 1965
6 0.69 1915
7 0.77 1954
8 0.78 1985
9 0.81 1999
10 0.83 1931

 


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