Heat Wave Continues in the West; Critical Fire Weather Conditions in the High Plains

An anomalously early heat wave will continue to intensify and expand across the West and Southwest as the week progresses. Numerous daily and potentially monthly record highs are expected to be broken. Critical fire weather conditions will continue over the next couple of days across portions of the High Plains as gusty winds and dry conditions persist. 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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