You whitethorn person to hold until September, oregon October, to bask a play escaped of big, summertime vigor successful Las Vegas.
Southern Nevada remains nether an utmost vigor informing until 8 p.m. Sunday. The forecast precocious for Saturday and Sunday is 107 degrees. The mean precocious for mid-to-late August is 103. Despite the warning, the vale is not expected to interruption immoderate daytime vigor records.
Harry Reid International Airport reached 108 degrees Friday, 3 degrees abbreviated of the 2020 record, said Brayden Murdock, a meteorologist astatine the National Weather Service bureau successful Las Vegas.
Murdoch said there’s a 10 percent accidental of rainfall for the vale this weekend. He said the higher terrain astir Las Vegas, including the Spring Mountains and the Sheep Range, person the champion opportunities of seeing a fewer showers.
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.
More rainfall astatine Reid
Early Friday morning, the upwind work reported that parts of the cardinal vale were deed by a stray thunderstorm. In a station connected X, the work said “a thunderstorm formed close implicit (our) office! We saw a bolt of lightning and heard thunder.”
The bureau said the tempest dropped 0.07 inches of rainfall astatine Reid and 0.12 inches astatine a rainfall gauge conscionable westbound of the airport.
The airdrome has recorded 0.18 inches of rainfall this month, its wettest period since February (0.35). 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.
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