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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 >

TOP INDIVIDUAL DAYS - OCTOBER
LAFAYETTE
 

Warmest October Highs
Lafayette
1893-2025

1 98 10/23/1933
t2 96 10/1/1900
t2 96 10/3/1900
t2 96 10/2/1904
t2 96 10/7/1911
t2 96 10/7/1912
t8 95 many dates

 

Coolest October Lows
Lafayette
1893-2025

1 27 10/31/1917
t2 30 10/29/1910
t2 30 10/30/1917
t4 31 10/27/1898
t4 31 10/28/1898
t4 31 10/30/1910
t4 31 10/24/1917
t4 31 10/29/1952
t9 32 many dates

 

Wettest October Days
Lafayette
1893-2025 

1 7.10 10/3/1964
2 5.87 10/27/1991
3 5.75 10/8/2004
4 5.14 10/25/1996
5 4.90 10/18/1980
6 4.48 10/27/2002
7 4.28 10/3/2002
8 4.18 10/22/1984
9 4.16 10/13/1995
10 4.11 10/31/2024

 


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