Significant Weather Events

JANUARY 8-11 2010 ARCTIC COLD

A deep upper level trough moving eastward across the United States forced a bitterly cold Arctic airmass southward from Canada into the Gulf Coast states on January 7, 2010. This airmass remained in place for several days across southeast Texas and Louisiana, leading to the coldest temperatures seen across this region since February 1996. Several record low temperatures were set, along with a few record low maximum temperatures. Many locations in the Lakes Region of southeast Texas and in central Louisiana remained below freezing for over 36 hours from around midnight early on January 8th through the afternoon on Saturday January 9th. These bitterly cold temperatures led to several school closures, numerous weather-related fires, and widespread plumbing ruptures across the region.

HIGH & LOW TEMPERATURES
	Fri 1/8		Sat 1/9		Sun 1/10		Mon 1/11
Alexandria	21	31	16*	38	18	40	19	52
Beaumont	25	35*	18*	41	23	43	22	54
Jasper	25	32	18	39	18	45	19	54
Lafayette	26	33	21*	38*	20	41	21	49
Lake Charles	26	36	21*	42	20	44	21	52
New Iberia	26	34	21	38	20	42	20	50
Patterson	28	36	23	37	21	45	19	52
* record low temperature * record low maximum temperature