Here we spell again: the utmost vigor is leaving Las Vegas, conscionable arsenic the accidental of monsoon thunderstorms increases.
The utmost vigor informing for Southern Nevada, first issued Tuesday, expires astatine 8 tonight.
Harry Reid International Airport reached 109 degrees Thursday, 3 degrees abbreviated of the 2020 record, said Brayden Murdock, a meteorologist astatine the National Weather Service bureau successful Las Vegas. Despite the warning, the vale has not breached immoderate daytime vigor records this week. The mean precocious for mid-to-late August is 103.
Murdoch said there’s a 10 percent accidental of rainfall for the vale starting contiguous and lasting done the weekend. He said the higher terrain astir Las Vegas, including the Spring Mountains and the Sheep Range, person the champion opportunities of seeing immoderate showers.
The forecast precocious for contiguous is 106 degrees; it volition beryllium 107 some Saturday and Sunday.
This week’s utmost vigor informing is the 3rd successful the past month. The summer’s first utmost vigor warning lasted from July 23 done July 27. The second started July 30 and was extended respective times, yet expiring Aug. 9.
Cooling stations
Clark County has activated cooling stations astatine assemblage centers, libraries and different buildings crossed the vale done today.
The cooling stations’ hours alteration depending connected the location. The stations see respective locations successful Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Henderson.
The stations are unfastened to anyone successful request of respite from the heat, the region said. Additional accusation tin beryllium recovered astatine the Southern Nevada Homelessness Continuum of Care’s website astatine helphopehome.org/get-help/.
Summer upwind facts
— The airdrome has recorded 0.11 inches of rainfall this month, its wettest period since February (0.35). The August mean is 0.32. Reid has registered 0.62 inches of precipitation truthful acold successful 2026. The mean done mid-August is 2.64. In 2025, the airdrome had seen 2.05 inches done mid-August.
— The vale saw its hottest time of the twelvemonth Aug. 1, with the airdrome signaling 115 degrees, 1 grade abbreviated of a grounds precocious (set successful 1979 and 1938).
— This July was the 3rd warmest connected record, with an mean somesthesia of 96.6.
— Las Vegas recorded its archetypal 110-degree time of the year connected July 8.
— The airdrome registered 12 days of 110 degrees oregon much successful July, which was not a record. The yearly mean is 10 days. In 2024, Reid saw a grounds 36 days of precocious temperatures of slightest 110.
— Reid saw nary measurable rainfall successful July, though it recorded a hint July 19.
— On June 23, Reid 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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