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 - MAY
LAFAYETTE

Warmest May Highs
Lafayette
1893-2026

t1	98	5/29/1896
t1	98	5/23/1902
t1	98	5/31/1977
t1	98	5/30/1998
t1	98	5/31/1998
t6	97	5/24/19896
t6	97	5/26/1901
t6	97	5/31/1951
t6	97	5/22/2005
t10	96	many times

Coolest May Lows
Lafayette
1893-2026

t1	42	5/1/1925
t1	42	5/3/1929
t3	44	5/13/1895
t3	44	5/7/1898
t3	44	5/10/1906
t3	44	5/4/1921
t3	44	5/12/1924
t3	44	5/4/1954
t3	44	5/5/1954
t3	44	5/4/2013

Wettest May Days
Lafayette
1893-2026

1	10.38	5/16/1980
2	9.09	5/8/1907
3	6.87	5/28/2014
4	6.86	5/12/2004
5	6.41	5/3/2017
6	6.37	5/17/2021
7	6.07	5/23/1927
8	5.15	5/6/1935
9	5.07	5/22/2008
10	4.99	5/31/1999

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

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