This weather has a price Keeping the median Tensas Parish home comfortable runs roughly $426 a year in heating and cooling alone. See where it lands in the monthly bill

30-year climate normals

Tensas Parish Climate and Weather Averages

Hottest month: August

93.3°

average daily high. The coldest month is January, averaging a low of 35.5°F.

Tensas Parish gets 58.23" of precipitation a year, and 30% of it falls in Jan, Feb, Mar.

Temperature through the year

Each bar spans the average daily low to the average daily high for that month.

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Precip
January	58.6°	35.5°	6.25"
February	62.7°	39.0°	5.50"
March	70.3°	45.8°	5.71"
April	77.5°	52.7°	4.86"
May	85.0°	61.8°	4.37"
June	90.5°	68.6°	4.17"
July	93.0°	70.9°	4.68"
August	93.3°	69.7°	4.39"
September	89.5°	64.1°	3.56"
October	80.5°	52.6°	3.80"
November	69.7°	43.0°	5.39"
December	61.0°	37.8°	5.55"

Rainfall by month

Precipitation is spread fairly evenly through the year here, with 30% falling in the wettest three months (Jan, Feb, Mar).

January 6.25"

February 5.50"

March 5.71"

April 4.86"

May 4.37"

June 4.17"

July 4.68"

August 4.39"

September 3.56"

October 3.80"

November 5.39"

December 5.55"

Annual total 58.23"

What this climate costs you

Degree days measure how hard a building has to work to stay comfortable. They are the reason two identical houses have very different power bills, and they are the link between the weather here and what you pay every month.

Cooling degree days How much air conditioning the climate demands 2,398

Heating degree days How much heating the climate demands 2,170

Approximate annual cooling cost At 13.49¢/kWh, Louisiana average $323

Approximate annual electric heating cost Lower where heating is gas rather than electric $102

These are rough planning figures from degree days and the state electricity price, not a bill estimate. House size, insulation and fuel type move them a lot. See the full cost of owning a home in Tensas Parish, where electricity is one line of eight.

Common questions

What is the weather like in Tensas Parish?

Tensas Parish averages a high of 93.3°F in August and a low of 35.5°F in January. Annual precipitation is 58.23 inches, with essentially no snow.

When is the rainy season in Tensas Parish?

The wettest stretch is Jan, Feb, Mar, which accounts for 30% of the year's precipitation. Precipitation is relatively evenly distributed across the year.

How hot does it get in Tensas Parish?

The average daily high in August, the hottest month, is 93.3°F. That drives 2,398 cooling degree days a year, which is what your air conditioning has to work against.

Does it snow in Tensas Parish?

Effectively no. Measurable snowfall is rare in Tensas Parish.

Sources

Temperature, precipitation and snowfall normals: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, 1991 to 2020 Monthly Climate Normals, station ST JOSEPH 3 N, LA US (USC00168163), 7.3 miles from the county centroid.
Heating and cooling degree days: NOAA, same station and period.
Annual figures on this page are the sum of that station's twelve monthly normals. NOAA also publishes a separately-computed annual normal, which can differ from the monthly sum by a few percent; we use the monthly series because the month-by-month breakdown above has to come from it.
Electricity price: US Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Monthly Table 5.6.A, Louisiana residential average.
Wet-season share is the wettest three consecutive months as a percentage of annual precipitation, calculated from the monthly normals.