Areas of Severe Thunderstorms, Excessive Rainfall, and Extreme Heat Wednesday

In the Upper Midwest, heavy to excessive rain may bring flash and urban flooding through Wednesday. Scattered severe thunderstorms capable of large hail and damaging wind gusts are possible from the central High Plains into the Upper Midwest Wednesday. Extreme heat is ongoing over the Desert Southwest through Thursday. 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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