It’s mid-July successful Las Vegas and, astir connected cue, present travel the thunderstorms.
A question of monsoon moisture is expected to get successful Southern Nevada today, bringing a 30 percent accidental of thunderstorms to Las Vegas, said Matt Woods, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service bureau successful Las Vegas.
He said they’ll beryllium “hit-or-miss” storms, favoring the precocious terrain astir Las Vegas archetypal past moving into the vale by mid-afternoon and lasting done the aboriginal evening hours.
Woods said flooding is the “primary threat” from the storms. He said the monsoonal moisture is going to instrumentality astir Southern Nevada for astatine slightest a week. There is simply a 10 percent accidental of rainfall for Saturday and Sunday. Today’s forecast precocious is 101 degrees, with the dew constituent astatine 60.
He said Tropical Storm Elida, which formed this week astir 500 miles westbound of Mexico successful the eastbound Pacific Ocean, volition not power the valley’s weather. The tempest is expected to caput northwest distant from Mexico by the weekend, according to the the National Hurricane Center.
Monsoon season
The summertime monsoon play successful Southern Nevada runs from precocious June into September. Julie Phillipson, pb meteorologist astatine the NWS, told the Review-Journal past week that it is hard to accidental whether the portion volition spot an accrued fig of thunderstorms this summer, but it is imaginable fixed the existent setup successful the atmosphere.
“There is simply a strengthening El Niño close now, truthful that could bespeak a much progressive Eastern Pacific tropical tempest season, which could springiness america much opportunities for important monsoon events, but close present we person to hold and see,” she said.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting a 40 percent to 50 percent accidental of above-normal precipitation successful Southern Nevada this period and a somewhat little accidental for above-normal precipitation done September. Normal precipitation successful Las Vegas averages 0.38 inch of rainfall successful July, 0.32 inch successful August and 0.32 inch successful September, according to information from NOAA.
Weather facts
— 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.
— Last period was the seventh-warmest June connected record, with an mean somesthesia of 91.1 degrees, the NWS said. It was the archetypal June since June 2022 that did not spot a somesthesia of 110 oregon above.
— Las Vegas hit 100 degrees for the archetypal clip this twelvemonth connected May 8.
— It deed 98 connected March 25 astatine the airport, the hottest March time ever successful Las Vegas. The vale saw eight consecutive days of record-breaking heat that month, the hottest March successful history.
Contact Mark Davis astatine mdavis@reviewjournal.com.
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