There are a couple of reasons why the Easter holiday has a wide range of temperatures from year to year. First, it's early Spring, and temps normally swing back and forth from hot to cold and back again. Second, Easter Sunday can fall anytime between March 22nd and April 25th. The formula to calculate Easter Sunday goes like this: The first Sunday, after the first full moon that follows the Spring Equinox. Yeah, credit card companies use a similar formula to calculate your due date each month!
The official high temperature here in Lafayette for Easter was 83 degrees! Not the warmest Easter on record, but certainly one of the warmest over the past few years. In 2009, Easter Sunday fell on April 12th and we hit 77. In 2008, Easter was on March 23rd, the high: 68. April 8, 2007, only 59! In 2006 we hit 87, that was on April 16th.
The early part of the week includes more warm weather. Today we'll be in the low 80s, around 80 tomorrow, and clouds on Wednesday should hold us in the upper 70s. Storms will move through with a cold front early Thursday with dry weather expected into the weekend. Temps during the day will reach the mid to upper 70s, but lows will drop to the low 50s again.

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