New all time record lows were set Wednesday morning. National Weather Service Meteorologist Stacey Denson says single digit temperature readings were recorded across southwest Louisiana.
“In Lake Charles this morning we got down to six-degrees, which is the second coldest ever, and then Lafayette and New Iberia were the coldest on record and that was two-degrees in New Iberia and four degrees in Lafayette,” Denson said.
Denson says they are still finalizing snowfall totals, but a large portion of southwest Louisiana saw more than a half foot of snow.
“The highest we’ve received so far is 10.5 inches and that was in Acadia Parish,” Denson said.
Eight-inch snowfall totals were recorded in Jennings, Opelousas, Lafayette, Jeanerette and even in Morgan City. Denson says the wind was so strong and the snowfall was coming down so fast, the National Weather Service in Lake Charles issued its first ever blizzard warning on Tuesday morning.
“At least for a three hour period yesterday morning, it was coming down very heavy and very quickly, accumulation built up over a very short amount of time, versus a lighter snowfall, which is what we normally see around here, which is just a brief period of light snow,” Denson said.
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