Will Las Vegas interruption different regular vigor grounds for the 3rd consecutive day? It might.
Today’s forecast precocious is 108 degrees, with a 20 percent accidental of scattered thunderstorms. The grounds is 110, acceptable successful 2019. Southern Nevada is nether an utmost vigor informing until 8 tonight.
On Thursday, Harry Reid International Airport reached 111 degrees, breaking the regular record of 110 acceptable successful 2017, said Andy Gorelow, a meteorologist astatine the National Weather Service bureau successful Las Vegas. The mean precocious for precocious August is 101.
On Wednesday, Reid deed 110, breaking the regular grounds of 109 acceptable successful 2001.
But a large cooldown is connected the way, starting this weekend.
Gorelow said a low-pressure strategy disconnected the California seashore is pushing inland, creating a accidental of rainfall and a driblet successful temperature. Saturday’s forecast precocious is 104; Sunday is 100.
By adjacent week, daytime highs volition beryllium successful the mid-to-upper 90s, Gorelow said. The forecast precocious for Monday, the past time of August, is 98 degrees. In contrast, connected the archetypal time of August, Las Vegas saw 115, its hottest time of the year.
Where’s the monsoon season?
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 has recorded 0.18 inches of rainfall this month, 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. The mean done mid-August is 2.64. In 2025, the airdrome had seen 2.05 inches done mid-August.
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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