Las Vegas has not seen 110-degree temperatures this year. That is astir to change.
Starting today, the vale is expected to deed 110 oregon supra for the adjacent 4 days. Today’s forecast precocious is 110; Thursday is 111, Friday is 110 and Saturday is 111. Tuesday’s precocious astatine Harry Reid International Airport was 108.
The past clip Las Vegas saw 110 degrees was Aug. 21, 2025, the latest day ever recorded for specified a precocious temperature. Last month, the vale recorded 109 connected June 16 and June 23. The mean archetypal 110-degree somesthesia is July 1.
Ashley Nickerson, a meteorologist astatine the National Weather Service bureau successful Las Vegas, said an “area of precocious unit is gathering implicit the Southwest,” causing temperatures to spike this week.
But it won’t beryllium thing similar the record-breaking vigor question successful 2024. Las Vegas deed 120 degrees connected July 7, 2024, the hottest time successful its history. No records are expected to beryllium breached this week. The mean precocious for aboriginal July is 104.
Cooling stations activated
Clark County said it has activated cooling stations astatine assemblage centers, libraries and different buildings crossed the valley.
The cooling stations’ hours volition alteration depending connected the location, the region said. The stations volition 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/, the region said.
Monsoon storms connected horizon?
Conditions volition beryllium a spot cooler by Sunday arsenic “a hint astatine monsoon moisture” enters Southern Nevada, which volition origin a driblet successful temperatures. The forecast precocious for Sunday is 108.
Nickerson said chances for monsoon storms volition summation Monday and Tuesday, but it’s excessively aboriginal to archer however beardown those chances volition be.
The summertime monsoon play successful Southern Nevada runs from precocious June into September. Julie Phillipson, pb meteorologist astatine the NWS, said 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,” Phillipson told the Review-Journal earlier this week.
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.
English (US)·