A quiet hurricane season and relatively comfortable summer temperatures, mixed in with quite a few rain events, marked the top ten weather events for 2013 listed by Louisiana State Climatologist Barry Keim and a month-by-month summary of weather events issued by the Slidell office of the National Weather Service.

“The year 2013 will go into the record books as a rather quiet year, at least regarding Louisiana’s weather,” Keim wrote in his annual summary. “We were hurricane free, had a summer free of extreme temperatures (at least in the southern half of the state), and severe weather like tornadoes, damaging winds, and hail were minimal.