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Severe Weather and Flooding Threats for the Central U.S.; Fire Weather Concerns for the Western U.S.

Severe weather and flooding threats will continue for portions of the central U.S. through Thursday, focused from the central High Plains to the Mid-Mississippi Valley. Hot and dry conditions will fuel fire weather concerns for the Intermountain West, and dry thunderstorms may spark additional wildfires. Dangerous heat will build across the southern U.S. Friday into the weekend. Read More >

CLIMATOLOGICAL WINTER TOP TENS
LAKE CHARLES
 

10 Warmest December-February's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 60.7 2016-17
2 60.3 1926-27
3 60.3 1949-50
4 59.6 1956-57
5 59.3 1951-52
6 59.1 1931-32
7 58.8 1922-23
8 58.1 2011-12
9 57.9 1971-72
10 57.9 1933-34

 

10 Coolest December-February's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 47.2 1977-78
2 47.7 1963-64
3 48.2 1898-99
4 48.7 1939-40
5 49.1 1962-63
6 49.2 1901-02
7 49.3 2009-10
8 49.4 1978-79
9 49.4 1976-77
10 50.0 2013-14

 

10 Wettest December-February's
Lake Charles
1895-2025
 

1 26.62 1914-15
2 25.64 1923-24
3 24.23 1911-12
4 23.14 1931-32
5 22.35 1986-87
6 21.51 2011-12
7 21.41 2012-13
8 21.38 1973-74
9 20.97 1982-83
10 20.94 1990-91

 

10 Driest December-February's
Lake Charles
1895-2025

 

1 5.03 2021-22
2 5.41 2008-09
3 5.65 1975-76
4 6.30 1913-14
5 6.80 1999-2000
6 7.04 1981-82
7 7.40 1985-86
8 7.42 1908-09
9 7.50 1910-11
10 7.52 1980-81

 


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