Areas of Dangerous Heat and Severe Thunderstorms

Dangerous heat will build across the Southwest U.S. through the end of the week with daytime highs of 110-115°F. Heat across the southern Plains will briefly ease to near-normal by late week before returning over much of the Plains into next week. Severe thunderstorms are expected across parts of the central and southern High Plains, central Great Lakes, and Ozarks Wednesday. Read More >

TOP INDIVIDUAL DAYS - APRIL
LAKE CHARLES

Warmest April Highs
Lake Charles
1895-2026

1	95	4/28/1987
2	93	4/29/1915
t3	92	4/19/1908
t3	92	4/28/1948
t3	92	4/19/1965
t3	92	4/27/2011
t7	91	4/7/1930
t7	91	4/21/1987
t7	91	4/27/1987
t7	91	4/29/1999

Coolest April Lows
Lake Charles
1895-2026

t1	30	4/11/1913
t1	30	4/13/1913
t3	32	4/26/1910
t3	32	4/12/1913
t5	33	4/25/1910
t5	33	4/10/1918
t7	34	4/14/1913
t7	34	4/8/1939
t7	34	4/13/1940
t7	34	4/7/1971

Wettest April Days
Lake Charles
1895-2026

1	10.01	4/27/1924
2	7.65	4/28/1914
3	7.61	4/29/1940
4	6.42	4/4/2019
5	5.74	4/6/2023
6	5.50	4/17/1973
7	5.08	4/24/1953
8	5.02	4/25/1997
9	4.57	4/29/1960
10	4.50	4/17/1940

Warmest & Coolest is temperature in degrees Fahrenheit
Wettest is rainfall in inches

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