Lake Effect Snow through Friday; Heavy Rain, Thunderstorms and Mountain Snow in California

Periods of moderate to heavy lake effect snow will continue through Friday downwind of Lake Erie and Ontario. Several additional inches of accumulating snow are expected. A Pacific storm will bring heavy rain and mountain snow across California, the Southwest and Intermountain West today. Isolated severe thunderstorms and scattered flash flooding is possible across parts of southern California. Read More >

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
500 AM CDT WED APR 2 2014

...MUCH BELOW AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FOR THE LAST 5 MONTHS...

AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FOR NOVEMBER 2013 THROUGH MARCH 2014 AVERAGED MUCH
BELOW NORMAL. IN FACT...ALEXANDRIA...LAKE CHARLES...LAFAYETTE...NEW
IBERIA...AND BEAUMONT ALL RANKED WITHIN THE TOP TEN COLDEST AVERAGE
TEMPERATURES FOR NOVEMBER THROUGH MARCH. BELOW IS A TABLE SUMMARIZING
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES FOR THE LAST 5 MONTHS WITH ALL TIME
RECORD RANK. RANKS WITH * INDICATES TIE WITH PREVIOUS YEAR.

                   AVERAGE TEMPERATURE/
                   DEPARTURE FROM NORMAL    AVG TEMP       RECORD/YEAR
               NOV   DEC   JAN   FEB   MAR NOV-MAR RANK    NOV-MAR
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ALEXANDRIA    54.7 48.9 42.8 49.2 55.0    50.1   *6TH 47.0/1977-78
              -2.7 -1.5 -6.2 -2.8 -4.2

LAKE CHARLES 57.5 51.3 46.3 52.4 57.1    53.0   *8TH 52.3/1914-15
              -3.6 -2.5 -5.5 -2.6 -4.3

LAFAYETTE     57.2 51.6 45.3 53.0 57.9    53.0    4TH 51.9/1898-99
              -4.4 -2.7 -7.2 -2.9 -4.3

NEW IBERIA    59.4 53.0 46.3 54.1 58.7    54.2    6TH 52.3/1977-78
              -1.8 -1.4 -6.5 -1.6 -3.2

BEAUMONT      58.7 52.3 48.6 54.4 58.9    54.6   *8TH 52.5/2009-10
              -3.0 -2.0 -4.1 -1.5 -3.1
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