If you thought the utmost vigor was implicit erstwhile September started, you thought wrong.
Just days aft seeing below-normal temperatures, Las Vegas is heading backmost into super-hot territory.
An utmost vigor informing has been issued for Southern Nevada, starting astatine 10 a.m. Thursday and lasting done 8 that evening, the National Weather Service said.
Expect “dangerously blistery late-season conditions” successful the region, with temperatures ranging from 112 to 116 degrees successful Death Valley and the Colorado River Valley to 105-110 for Las Vegas, Moapa Valley and Pahrump Valley.
A high-pressure strategy that usually sits implicit the Four Corners portion (which brings the chances of monsoon rainfall to Las Vegas), is shifting west, causing the temperatures to spike, said Jenn Soulat, a meteorologist astatine the upwind work bureau successful Las Vegas.
Thursday’s forecast precocious is 106, 2 degrees abbreviated of the grounds acceptable successful 1945. Tuesday’s precocious is 99, Wednesday is 103 and Friday is 104. The mean precocious for aboriginal September is successful the precocious 90s.
On Sunday, Harry Reid International Airport recorded a chill 84 degrees, acknowledgment to cloud screen from the menace of rain. It was 96 connected Monday.
Record summertime heat
Last period was the warmest August connected record, with an mean somesthesia of 96.3 degrees, beating retired 2020 (95.6).
On Aug. 1, Las Vegas saw 115, its hottest time of the year. And the period was dominated by several vigor warnings, the past 1 expiring successful the month’s last days.
Also, July was the 3rd warmest connected record, with an mean somesthesia of 96.6.
Weak monsoon play
The monsoon season, which began successful precocious June and lasts done September, has been astir nonexistent for the vale during a precise adust year.
The airdrome registered a hint of rainfall Sunday but it has seen nary measurable rainfall truthful acold this month. The mean September precipitation for Las Vegas is 0.32 inches. Last year, the vale recorded 0.28 inches.
In August, the airdrome recorded 0.18 inches of rain, its wettest period since February (0.35). But the August mean is 0.32. Reid has registered 0.69 inches of precipitation truthful acold successful 2026.
Reid saw nary measurable rainfall successful July. On June 23, the airdrome recorded 0.02 inches of rain, breaking a rainless streak of 124 days. It was the lone rainfall of the month.
Contact Mark Davis astatine mdavis@reviewjournal.com.
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