If you didn’t spot immoderate rainfall successful your vicinity the past 2 days, contiguous whitethorn beryllium your day.
There is simply a 50 percent accidental of rainfall Friday for the Las Vegas Valley, said Ashley Nickerson, a meteorologist astatine the National Weather Service bureau successful Las Vegas. She explained that determination is simply a 20-to-30 percent accidental of rainfall successful the morning, which grows to 50 percent aft 2 p.m.
Nickerson said a low-pressure strategy coming from the Pacific Ocean is not lone helping chill the vale disconnected aft two weeks of utmost heat but it is besides boosting chances of much-needed rainfall successful Southern Nevada.
On Thursday, Harry Reid International Airport recorded 0.02 inches, its archetypal measurable precipitation successful astir 2 months. Rainfall connected June 23 (0.02 inches) broke a rainless streak of 124 days.
On Wednesday, Reid recorded a hint of rainfall portion parts of the eastbound and bluish valleys received immoderate showers.
Nickerson said temperatures volition enactment beneath the mean of 104 during the adjacent fewer days. The forecast precocious for Las Vegas is 93 degrees today. It volition enactment successful the 90s connected Saturday and Sunday.
Summer upwind facts
— The mean August rainfall successful Las Vegas is 0.32 inches. In August 2025, Reid lone saw a trace.
— 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 past July was the 3rd warmest connected record, with an mean somesthesia of 96.6.
— The greeting debased somesthesia astatine Reid connected July 29 was 89 degrees. It ended the six-day streak of consecutive days with a debased somesthesia astatine oregon supra 90 degrees, the longest ever recorded for the valley.
— 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 astatine slightest 110.
Contact Mark Davis astatine mdavis@reviewjournal.com.
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