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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 >

MARCH TOP TENS
LAKE CHARLES
 

10 Warmest March's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

1 70.7 2020
2 70.3 2012
3 69.1 1921
4 68.2 1938
5 67.6 1945
6 67.4 1953
7 66.5 1908
8 66.3 1935
t9 66.2 1974
t9 66.2 2026

 

10 Coolest March's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

1 53.0 1915
2 54.0 1969
3 54.6 1960
4 54.7 1914
t5 54.7 1931
t5 54.7 1941
7 55.1 1947
8 55.5 1912
9 56.3 1913
10 56.4 1937

 

10 Wettest March's
Lake Charles
1895-2026
 

1 9.67 1949
2 9.42 1903
3 9.39 1926
4 9.24 2001
5 9.21 1934
6 9.01 1980
7 8.74 1943
t8 7.75 1922
t8 7.75 1951
10 7.46 2012

 

10 Driest March's
Lake Charles
1895-2026

 

1 0.12 1955
2 0.19 2006
3 0.27 1971
4 0.39 1910
5 0.55 1963
6 0.70 2019
7 0.75 1966
8 0.80 1996
9 0.84 1960
10 1.03 1953

 


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