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 - DECEMBER
LAFAYETTE

Warmest December Highs
Lafayette
1893-2025

1	89	12/1/1906
2	86	12/3/1933
t3	84	multiple dates

Coolest December Lows
Lafayette
1893-2025

1	9	12/23/1989
2	11	12/24/1989
t3	12	12/16/1901
t3	12	12/25/1983
t5	14	12/29/1894
t5	14	12/30/1917
t7	15	12/13/1962
t7	15	12/24/1983
t7	15	12/22/1989
t10	16	multiple dates

Wettest December Days
Lafayette
1893-2025

1	7.10	12/31/1933
2	6.56	12/1/2023
3	5.74	12/18/1995
4	5.09	12/5/1971
5	5.05	12/3/1982
t6	4.87	12/26/1982
t6	4.87	12/04/2025
8	4.37	12/19/1956
9	4.32	12/31/1901
10	4.30	12/05/1950

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

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