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Heavy to Excessive Rains in The Four Corners Region and Midwest; Heat Persists in the South-Central U.S.

Repeated rounds of showers and thunderstorms could bring a flash flooding threat across the Four Corners region and from the mid-Mississippi Valley into the lower Great Lakes. Hot temperatures and high humidity will continue to challenge daily records from the Southern Plains to the lower Mississippi Valley. Read More >

AUGUST TOP TENS
LAKE CHARLES
 

10 Warmest August's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

1 89.2 2023
2 86.9 2011
3 86.3 2026
4 86.0 1902
5 86.0 1951
6 85.8 1999
7 85.7 2010
8 85.7 1995
9 85.6 2024
10 85.2 2019

 

10 Coolest August's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

1 79.5 1940
2 79.6 1973
3 79.7 1992
4 80.0 1965
5 80.1 1967
6 80.3 1960
7 80.5 1904
8 80.6 1918
9 80.7 1974
t10 80.7 1911
t10 80.7 1931

 

10 Wettest August's
Lake Charles
1895-2026
 

1 23.57 2017
2 17.36 1962
3 15.74 2014
4 15.05 1915
5 14.70 2016
6 14.56 1940
7 11.52 1977
8 10.68 1913
9 10.63 1910
10 10.13 1916

 

10 Driest August's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

1 Trace 1999
2 0.23 2026
3 0.77 1976
4 0.94 1990
5 1.00 1951
6 1.11 2023
7 1.17 1902
8 1.29 2000
9 1.36 1952
10 1.55 1980

 


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