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 >

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

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