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New Orleans, LA 29.998°N, 90.278°W · station MSYthr · 81 years of record
74°F
COLDEST JUL 14 SINCE 2012
forecast low · Jul 14
NWS NDFD forecast low temperature for New Orleans.
74° TUE 7/14 75° WED 7/15 77° THU 7/16 78° FRI 7/17 78° SAT 7/18 78° SUN 7/19 This Day in History · Jul 14
Today ranks #29 / 80
coldest Jul 14 in 80 yrs of record
Coldest Jul 14 ever 65°F
set in 1990
Mildest Jul 14 ever 80°F
set in 1980
Coldest Jul 14 — Year by Year
Every year's low on Jul 14 at New Orleans. The forecast line shows where today lands; the ringed bar is the coldest on record.
65 72 80 1946: 74°F 1947: 74°F 1948: 73°F 1949: 74°F 1950: 72°F 1951: 70°F 1952: 73°F 1953: 72°F 1954: 72°F 1955: 76°F 1956: 75°F 1957: 77°F 1958: 74°F 1959: 74°F 1960: 72°F 1961: 73°F 1962: 76°F 1963: 74°F 1964: 71°F 1965: 74°F 1966: 70°F 1967: 74°F 1968: 74°F 1969: 73°F 1970: 76°F 1971: 74°F 1972: 67°F 1973: 77°F 1974: 71°F 1975: 71°F 1976: 71°F 1977: 72°F 1978: 76°F 1979: 77°F 1980: 80°F 1981: 77°F 1982: 70°F 1983: 71°F 1984: 71°F 1985: 71°F 1986: 71°F 1987: 77°F 1988: 74°F 1989: 74°F 1990: 65°F 1991: 78°F 1992: 74°F 1993: 73°F 1994: 74°F 1995: 71°F 1996: 77°F 1997: 73°F 1998: 74°F 1999: 72°F 2000: 78°F 2001: 75°F 2002: 74°F 2003: 78°F 2004: 73°F 2005: 75°F 2006: 76°F 2007: 74°F 2008: 77°F 2009: 77°F 2010: 76°F 2011: 77°F 2012: 73°F 2013: 76°F 2014: 77°F 2015: 77°F 2016: 77°F 2017: 75°F 2018: 78°F 2019: 77°F 2020: 79°F 2021: 78°F 2022: 76°F 2023: 80°F 2024: 79°F 2025: 77°F 74° forecast 1946 1990 2025 Forecast low · Jul 14 74°F Coldest this date since 2012 This-date record 65°F This-date rank #29 of 80
Coldest at any time since 2026 All-time record 11°F (1989) Odds to tie/break 0.0% (daily) Period of record 1946–2026
The hottest and coldest ever recorded at New Orleans in each calendar month, and for the whole 1946–2026 record — with the year each was set.
Month Record High Record Low Jan 83°F 1957 14°F 1962 Feb 86°F 2026 16°F 1996 Mar 89°F 1982 25°F 1980 Apr 92°F 1987 32°F 1971 May 97°F 2018 41°F 1960 Jun 101°F 2009 50°F 1984 Jul 101°F 1980 60°F 1967 Aug 105°F 2023 60°F 1968 Sep 101°F 1980 42°F 1967 Oct 97°F 2019 35°F 1968 Nov 88°F 2016 24°F 1970 Dec 85°F 2017 11°F 1989 All-time 105°F 2023 11°F 1989
Records set or tied at New Orleans so far this year — through Jul 11.
Record Highs in 2026 4 broke
plus 4 tied — daily record highs set this year
Monthly high record this year: Feb (86°F)
Record Lows in 2026 1 broke
plus 0 tied — daily record lows set this year
Current run 0 days
consecutive days with a low ≤ 32°F
Longest ever 8 days
record run, ended Jan 22 1977
So far in 2026 9 days
days with a low ≤ 32°F this year
Normal low & low by month, from New Orleans's own 1991–2020 record. Today's normal low: 76°F · forecast is -2° vs normal .
Jan: 63°F Jan: 45°F Feb: 67°F Feb: 49°F Mar: 73°F Mar: 54°F Apr: 79°F Apr: 61°F May: 86°F May: 68°F Jun: 90°F Jun: 74°F Jul: 92°F Jul: 76°F Aug: 92°F Aug: 76°F Sep: 88°F Sep: 73°F Oct: 81°F Oct: 64°F Nov: 71°F Nov: 53°F Dec: 65°F Dec: 48°F J F M A M J J A S O N D Sun & Daylight Today Sunrise 5:09 AM Sunset 7:04 PM Solar noon 12:07 PM Daylight 13h 55m · losing 5 min/wk
Local standard time (no DST), level horizon.
Location 30.00°N, 90.28°W New Orleans's observed daily low for the last six weeks — a white ring marks any day that broke or tied its daily record for that date.
Every day this year against New Orleans's own record — the record low, the normal, and the full span ever seen. A shareable look at where the year stands.
Each cell is one day's low at New Orleans, coloured by temperature — 81 years of record, so heat waves read as warm streaks and cold snaps as blue.
How many days a year hit a given low at New Orleans — counted through Jul 14 each year, so you can see whether 2026 is running cold. Pick a threshold:
40° 32° 20° 10° 0° -10° -20°
9 days ≤32°F so far in 2026 — tied for the 26th most in 81 years. Normal for this point: 6 . Record: 19 in 1968.
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